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Military and Defense Policy

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Boeing May Lose $500M In Air Force Tanker Contract

    ​Under a fatty 179-aircraft contract signed by Boeing and the U.S. Air Force, any costs that go over the $4.8 billion budget agreed to will be absorbed by Boeing. And according to new estimates, Boeing is set to do a lot of absorbing.

  • News

    September 7, 2011

    Donald Rumsfeld's Widow Problem

    What happens when you call the former Secretary of Defense a liar.

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Patty Murray's Afghan Question to Robert Gates: What About the Human Cost of War?

    Barrett​Most of the testimony on defense spending yesterday at the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee hearing in D.C. focused on Barack Obama's planned 2012 Afghanistan war drawdown, particularly the timing and politics of ending a war we can't win. For some, withdrawal can't come too ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 16, 2011

    The Most Dangerous Man in America

    Barrett​Most of the testimony on defense spending yesterday at the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee hearing in D.C. focused on Barack Obama's planned 2012 Afghanistan war drawdown, particularly the timing and politics of ending a war we can't win. For some, withdrawal can't come too ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    Major Margaret Witt's Case May Help Bring an End to "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

    ​UPDATE: A judge ruled that Major Witt should be given her job back as soon as possible. Someday, we're all going to look back at this whole hunting-and-trapping-the-gays-out-of-the-military thing and just laugh. Or cry. Or both. But until that hypothetical enlightened age, there's Major Marg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    Michael Kinsley and Ex-Tacoma Publisher Donate to Pols; Sy Hersh Gave Locally Too

    Kinsley​Giving money to political campaigns can be quicksand for journalists striving to be impartial or at least fair. But reporters, editors and others who work for the news media have given almost a half-million dollars to U.S. political candidates this election cycle, according to the D.C. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Quit Calling the War Logs the New Pentagon Papers

    ​Some news outlets have suggested that the War Logs -- the 92,000 confidential documents recently leaked to three major newspapers by the stateless curtain-lifters at WikiLeaks -- are the new Pentagon Papers. Like here, and here and here. These people are wrong. Here's why.

  • Film

    March 10, 2010

    The Most Dangerous Man in America: Remember Daniel Ellsberg? You Should

    ​Some news outlets have suggested that the War Logs -- the 92,000 confidential documents recently leaked to three major newspapers by the stateless curtain-lifters at WikiLeaks -- are the new Pentagon Papers. Like here, and here and here. These people are wrong. Here's why.

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Lessons Unlearned: The Pentagon's New Report on the November Massacre at Fort Hood Echoes Findings From The May Murders at Camp Liberty

    ​This morning's Pentagon report on the November massacre by Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan, who faces court martial at Fort Hood, sounds in a repetitive way like the Pentagon report on the May massacre by Army psychiatric patient John Russell, who faces court martial at Fort Lewis. "It ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Bob Gates' Boeing Par-tees

    The Boeing Co. was among the big defense contractors who threw $340,000 worth of parties and other events to honor Defense Sect. Robert Gates last year, reports public watchdog CREW, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (D.C.). But Gates, the Bush-administration holdover who continue ... More >>

  • News

    December 17, 2008

    The Army’s Brain Lives in Seattle

    Cray Inc. is improving soldiers’ armor, tanks, and supercomputers, thanks to millions in government contracts.

  • Film

    December 10, 2008

    Virtual JFK: Brown University Prof Insists Vietnam Could’ve Been Avoided

    Cray Inc. is improving soldiers’ armor, tanks, and supercomputers, thanks to millions in government contracts.

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2008

    Bin Laden Driver's Gitmo Release Set

    Thanks in part to Seattle attorneys, Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, will be released from Guantanamo Bay in the next few days and sent to his native Yemen to serve his final month in custody. In an August war crimes trial, a panel of six U.S. military officers reached a split v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2008

    No Retirement For Pentagon's Gates?

    Gates and son Brad, a Wazzu grad Skagit County resident and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates apparently won't be returning in January to retire at his Big Lake home. The word from D.C. is that Gates, a Bush appointee, will be staying on under the Obama administration to head the Pentagon. He ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2008

    Boeing Pal McCain?

    Gates and son Brad, a Wazzu grad Skagit County resident and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates apparently won't be returning in January to retire at his Big Lake home. The word from D.C. is that Gates, a Bush appointee, will be staying on under the Obama administration to head the Pentagon. He ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2008

    No Boeing Bid? Ha

    Gates and son Brad, a Wazzu grad Skagit County resident and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates apparently won't be returning in January to retire at his Big Lake home. The word from D.C. is that Gates, a Bush appointee, will be staying on under the Obama administration to head the Pentagon. He ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2008

    Boeing Tanker Reprieve

    Gates and son Brad, a Wazzu grad Skagit County resident and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates apparently won't be returning in January to retire at his Big Lake home. The word from D.C. is that Gates, a Bush appointee, will be staying on under the Obama administration to head the Pentagon. He ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2008

    The Nuking of JFK

    Gates and son Brad, a Wazzu grad Skagit County resident and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates apparently won't be returning in January to retire at his Big Lake home. The word from D.C. is that Gates, a Bush appointee, will be staying on under the Obama administration to head the Pentagon. He ... More >>

  • News

    March 26, 2008

    Lazy B's Other Problem

    Cost increases and delays seem likely for its current U.S. Army project.

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2008

    Boeing's Defense Overruns, Cont.

    Cost increases and delays seem likely for its current U.S. Army project.

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2007

    They're Covered

    Cost increases and delays seem likely for its current U.S. Army project.

  • News

    July 18, 2007

    The Worst Internal Scandal in NSA History Was Blamed on Cold War Defectors’ Homosexuality

    But what if they weren’t gay?

  • News

    March 9, 2005

    Weapons of Mass Improvisation

    The roadside bomb has mass appeal among insurgents and is having a massive impact.

  • News

    March 9, 2005

    From CEO to Cipher

    Boeing's chief ethicist—the CEO—is fired for having an affair with a D.C.-based vice president.

  • News

    December 1, 2004

    'Embarrassing Don'

    New Air Force e-mails released by Sen. John McCain throw light on the Boeing tanker scandal.

  • News

    July 28, 2004

    Airbus America

    The European plane maker wants to build aerial tankers in the U.S. So Washington state is wooing Airbus to locate here, as it did with Boeing, right? Right? Wrong.

  • News

    July 14, 2004

    The Home Affront

    They fight for us, obediently. Yet in conflict after conflict, American soldiers are injected, gassed, medicated, experimented on, exposed to chemicals, and given faulty weapons and equipment by their own government. Then they come home to vanishing veterans benefits and Pentagon stonewalling.

  • News

    June 9, 2004

    Save Some Outrage

    Mad about Enron? What about Boeing and the UW?

  • News

    April 21, 2004

    Plane Pain

    Boeing's ethical challenges aren't a problem for its new business partner, the state. At least not yet.

  • News

    April 21, 2004

    Bad Days Ahead

    A leaked coalition memo reveals that even true believers see the seeds of civil war in the occupation of Iraq.

  • News

    March 31, 2004

    The Wrong Answer

    Modern war presidents don't let facts get in the way of military conquest.

  • Music

    February 4, 2004

    Hawk and Dove

    Thirty-one years after Vietnam, Robert McNamara is still fighting the same battle with himself.

  • News

    December 17, 2003

    Facing Our Losses

    Here's one measure of the cost of fighting terrorism and liberating Iraq and Afghanistan: 395 with Washington state connections are dead.

  • News

    December 10, 2003

    Pentagon Pals

    It's time to call Boeing and others to account for influence peddling.

  • News

    December 3, 2003

    Murray vs. McCain

    We need watchdogs, not enablers. Its time to retire the senator from Boeing.

  • News

    December 3, 2003

    A New Ethical Era for the Sleazy B?

    Don't count on it.

  • News

    May 7, 2003

    Over Our Heads

    Should Seattle worry about rogue missile attacks, or the multibillion-dollar program being deployed to stop them?

  • News

    March 19, 2003

    The War After the War

    U.S. Army documents warn of occupation hazards.

  • News

    October 23, 2002

    Dare to Tell the Truth

    U.S. Army documents warn of occupation hazards.

  • News

    September 11, 2002

    An Anti-War Movement of One

    A conservative breaks ranks with both the right and left to oppose an Iraq attack.

  • News

    June 12, 2002

    Thinking nuclear war

    A conservative breaks ranks with both the right and left to oppose an Iraq attack.

  • News

    March 20, 2002

    Who Said It?

    A conservative breaks ranks with both the right and left to oppose an Iraq attack.

  • News

    October 10, 2001

    Boeing's war

    Will growth in military business offset the decline in commercial jet building?

  • News

    September 26, 2001

    Tomorrow's terror

    The next attack will likely be by land or water.

  • News

    September 19, 2001

    Star wars battle

    Four experts debate missile defense.

  • News

    September 12, 2001

    Medium and massacre

    Four experts debate missile defense.

  • News

    January 10, 2001

    Brave new defense world

    Thanks to G.W., the troubled missile defense system should boom at Boeing.

  • News

    March 24, 1999

    Kitsap County: The war goes on

    Thanks to G.W., the troubled missile defense system should boom at Boeing.

  • News

    February 24, 1999

    Con air?

    A whistleblower and the feds say Boeing knowingly sold faulty helicopters.

  • News

    May 6, 1998

    A wing, a prayer, and a bailout

    Boeing balances its books by going to the taxpayer well again—and selling us surplus fighters the military doesn't even want.

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