Dozens of war ships heading for the Persian gulf. Is this the beginning of the Iran war?

Georgian invasion of South Ossetia sets the stage for a wider war

Dick Cheney's Office: Why don't we build -- we in our shipyard -- build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up.

Former Secretaries of State James Baker and Warren Christopher have proposed a new statute to encourage the president and Congress to cooperate in going to war. But the Constitution already sets forth a clear rule: Congress, and only Congress, is tasked

Seymour Hersh has been writing about the Bush administration’s aggressive stance against Iran for years now. His latest article for The New Yorker, “Preparing the Battlefield“, Hersh claims that the Bush administration has been carrying out clandes

Afghanistan is more than a manhunt, and it does matter, for reasons that have not been fully fleshed out by policy makers or the military.

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The war in Afghanistan cannot be won, Britain's most senior military commander in the country has warned.

The 2008 election is now an Obama-Palin race about “the future,” and the only person who doesn’t seem to know it is Mr. Past, poor old John McCain.

It was hard to tell from Gov. Sarah Palin’s remarks in the vice-presidential debate if she understands how Dick Cheney has reshaped and damaged the office.

The new guidelines reduce standards for beginning "assessments" (precursors to investigations), conducting surveillance and gathering evidence, meaning the threshold to beginning investigations across the board will be lowered. More troubling still, the g

The "necessary war" in Afghanistan, which both presidential candidates support - the one, you know, that's really about terrorists and Osama and all - raises as many troubling questions about who we are as the other war we're fighting and losing.

Why aren't more conservatives disgusted that their party nominated a person devoid of qualifications for the vice presidency (again)?

A review of records suggests that Barack Obama and Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weathermen, were not close.

Remember when Eric Shinseki, the Army Chief of Staff, was pushed into retirement for testifying truthfully that occupying Iraq might prove to be a daunting challenge and could require several hundred thousand US combat troops?