The Pentagon

Philippines: A Re-return

3 Whidbey Sailors KIA

Boeing's Defense Overruns, Cont.

Boeing Tanker Reprieve

No Boeing Bid? Ha

Boeing Pal McCain?

Brave new defense world

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

Tomorrow's terror

The next attack will likely be by land or water.

An Anti-War Movement of One

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

Pentagon Pals

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

Crippled Home Front

The Department of Veterans Affairs is being targeted for billions in cuts. Evidently, President Bush's support for the troops doesn't include their health care.

A Day in the Life

The Department of Veterans Affairs is being targeted for billions in cuts. Evidently, President Bush's support for the troops doesn't include their health care.

Lazy B's Other Problem

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

Who Said It?

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

Boeing 7$7

The costs of keeping the company happy just keep going up.

Be Prepared

Because the government sure as hell isn't.

Weapons of Mass Improvisation

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

Veterans Day Address to the Nation

A suggested speech for the president.

The Battle of Algiers

Criterion Collection, $49.95

Save Some Outrage

Mad about Enron? What about Boeing and the UW?

Plane Pain

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

Bad Days Ahead

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

Politics

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

The Wrong Answer

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

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.

The Next Generation

The problem with Bushs missile defense plan is that it doesnt think big enough.

Over Our Heads

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

Please Bomb Seattle

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

Dogs of War and Ignorance

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

The List

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

Dare to Tell the Truth

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

My Bookfest Shortlist

A highly biased guide to this weekend's festival.

Thinking nuclear war

A highly biased guide to this weekend's festival.

Voodoo science

A highly biased guide to this weekend's festival.

The Office of Marital Influence

A highly biased guide to this weekend's festival.

Boeing's war

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

Star wars battle

Four experts debate missile defense.

Bombs away

Four experts debate missile defense.

Resistance is fertile!

After the WTO, Electrohippies plan online "hacktivism" against biotech targets.

Microsoft's New Brain Project

A prodigy's Redmond isolation lab faces 'outing' over life secrets

Kitsap County: The war goes on

A prodigy's Redmond isolation lab faces 'outing' over life secrets

Con air?

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

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.

Cover Story: Buddy Count

A Fort Lewis court-martial will determine the fate of an allegedly murderous Army sergeant, whose case may help explain the surge in non-combat deaths.

Rio Fame

In this series’ final installment, Duff explains what it’s really like to play in the biggest band in the world.

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 >>

Guantanamo Bay's Very Expensive Starbucks

Not pictured: the fine mocha selection.​Human rights groups and government-waste watchers got very giddy yesterday when The Washington Post published the first-ever look at the ledgers of torturey Guantanamo Bay. Costs always run high when America has to export strip-mall living to a country ... More >>

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.

Gays Allowed to Enter U.S. Military? Local Recruiter Says Not Yet

​According to Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic magazine, being openly gay will no longer get you turned away from the U.S. military. "As of today," he writes, "one can walk into a military recruitment office with one's same-sex partner, fill out forms, and get the process started." But take note, ... More >>

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 >>