According to an emergency motion filed late last night in the trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, one of the defense team's lawyers was interrogated by the FBI, possibly compromising their case. The ...

Every few years since 1996, the Department of Defense has released the Quadrennial Defense Review, a comprehensive examination of the tasks facing the U.S. military. The Pentagon's second QDR since ...

All of the options that President Obama is reportedly considering for troop increases in Afghanistan require tens of thousands of soldiers. The top commander there, General Stanley McChrystal, has ...

No one said the debate over the morality of torture, raging since the first days of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, would be easy. It's been especially difficult for Spencer Ackerman, a national ...

SAUK RAPIDS — It was the return of quarterback Spencer Ackerman. Playing Monticello at Sauk Rapids Middle School, Friday was Ackerman's first game back with the varsity Storm football team since ...

"Parlor-game speculation," as Spencer Ackerman calls it, is a popular Washington pastime, and the leaking of Ambassador Eikenberry's cables today--which the Wire covered here--provided ample fodder ...

When the U.S. troop surge wound down in Afghanistan last week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta slapped a positive gloss on the operation, saying it succeeded in "reversing the Taliban momentum." While ...

Where are you more likely to find bigoted views--the wild fringes of the Internet, or talk radio? A surprisingly fierce debate sprang up between two Washington Post writers over this question. Michael ...

PETA may be able to take a sigh of relief: if researchers at Colorado State University are right, plants could unseat bomb-sniffing dogs for detecting TNT. The New York Times' Kirk Johnson explains ...