America at War

Budget Battles

  • Raytheon Aerostats

    The Blimp That May Save America from Terror

    By Robert Ferris, CNBC

    The U.S. Army is floating a football field-sized, blimp-like aircraft 10,000 feet above Maryland to protect Washington and much of the east coast from military attacks. Bearing the memory-taxing name...

  • U.S. Troops Teeter on Edge of Iraq-ISIS Battles

    By Missy Ryan and Erin Cunningham, The Washington Post

    In Iraq’s western Anbar province, more than 300 U.S. troops are posted at a base in the thick of a pitched battle between Iraqi forces, backed by tribal fighters, and well-armed Islamic State...

  • ISIS May Be Executing Its Own Fighters

    By Adam Taylor, The Washington Post

    Few doubt the horrific scale of atrocities committed by the Islamic State since it captured large areas of Syria and Iraq earlier this year. What may be more surprising is that even some of the group...

  • 2015 Could Be a Breakthrough Year for Military Robotics

    By Patrick Tucker, Defense One

    Russia stormed into Ukraine , stoking Cold War flames. A little-known group of fighters calling themselves the Islamic State upended the civil war in Syria and re-kindled Iraq, opening wounds in a...

  • U.S. does not rule out removing all troops from Afghanistan

    The Endless $1.6 Trillion War on Terror

    By Eric Pianin

    The U.S. is increasingly coming to grips with the terrible costs of the post-9/11 war on terror that has gone on for over a decade – with no end in sight. American casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq...