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Give the boys in the Pentagon credit; they’ve got chutzpah. While the federal government hemorrhages money — and everyone from Goldman Sachs to General Motors to the city of Philadelphia is looking for more Washington cash — the Defense Department…

The Navy wants a smarter bomb. Not just a bomb that can land within a few meters of the bull’s eye — but a bomb that can do so, with just the right amount of blast. On Monday, the Navy…

* Hijacked tanker nears Somalia * Physicist pleads guilty to China spying * Australia temporarily shuts down navy * $16 mil more for microwave weapons * Gulf War illness is real: report (High five: Capn Van, RC)

If Russian press reports are to be believed, then Moscow’s military is taking a serious look at buying Israeli-made drones. In a recent meeting with the Russian parliament’s defense committee, General Nikolai Makarov, chief of Russia’s general staff, reportedly told…

The Taliban threatened to launch attacks in Paris unless France withdraws from Afghanistan, in a video aired by Al Arabiya television on Monday. Skip related content
The video also claimed an ambush that killed 10 French …

A suspicious substance mailed to the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is on its way to FBI headquarters in Quantico, Va., for further testing.
FBI agents in Salt Lake City said …

President-elect Obama may not exactly see eye-to-eye with the chiefs of the Missile Defense Agency. But don’t expect the latter-day Star Wars program to go away, Time magazine’s Mark Thompson argues. “The Russians — along with the two men most…

During the Cold War, the Navy’s “big-deck” amphibious assault ships, with full loads of Marines, helicopters and Harrier jump jets, rotated through two stations: one in the eastern Mediterranean, and another in the Pacific. The idea was that the Pentagon…

After investing in a fleet of over 10,000 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, the Pentagon is preparing to buy more — lots more. The super-sized trucks have been credited with saving many lives, but as reported here previously, the…

* Feds can snoop on cell phones, without telcos’ knowledge * “How Sarkozy saved Georgian president’s private parts” * General hints China may add carrier * Few Iranian arms in Iraq? * Over 1 million liters of booze for German…