Like any red-blooded American, I'm deeply concerned that Iran or another Middle East nation will develop long-range missile capability and then immediately launch an attack on the Czech Republic. In such an event, it will be crucial that the Czech Republic has a ballistic missile defense system from the U.S. ...

The New York Times' James Risen spotlighted yesterday the billions mega-contractor KBR is wasting in Iraq. Today the Washington Post's Derek Kravitz looks at KBR's equally disgraceful Hurricane Katrina recovery work.

Via a Freedom of Information Act request, Kravitz obtained a ...

For three weeks the U.S. Navy has been pleading with the Burmese government to fly in aid to Burma’s rural areas. The Washington Post’s Amy Kazmin reports that the effort has for now been abandoned. The U.S. federal government has had limited success getting aid into the cyclone-torn ...

Three weeks ago the Wall Street Journal reported on a heated dispute between private Blackwater Worldwide and the city of San Diego. The mayor of San Diego didn’t want the notorious private security company to build a counterterrorism facility in a warehouse that included a firing range. Well, as ...

Esquire magazine is calling Admiral William “Fox” Fallon, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East, a man of great complexity and “strategic brilliance.” The Washington Post’s Thomas Ricks reports that Fallon is vehemently denying it all.

Marine wildlife on the California coast may yet be able to rest easy in spite of Bush Administration efforts to override court decisions with presidential waivers.  Federal judge Florence-Marie Cooper has ruled that President Bush was mistaken in issuing a waiver that would allow the Navy to use deep-water sonar, ...

The State Department and the Navy are beginning to reach out to Middle Eastern audiences by posting to Arabic-language blogs, writes Walter Pincus in the Washington Post.  While it's too bad it took so long for America's information services to start blogging, it's a welcome and refreshing change from traditional ...

Excellent reporting helps the public understand where the money goes in government. In the case of the president’s helicopters, it appears there is nowhere to go but up. Jonathan Karp and Scot Paltrow of the Wall Street Journal raise issues (see their article here) about Marine One, the presidential helicopter, that should concern taxpayers, journalists, and public servants. The Navy is ordering twenty-three of these aircraft from Lockheed. Last time I checked we had only one president (two if you count Cheney).