In one short decade, the country of Colombia moved from being a failed state to almost being the opposite today. This incredible success story, tog...

While NASA's Orion test flight dominated space news last week, CCTV reported on big steps for China's space program. In a Tianjin rocket factory, t...

CNN's Brian Todd reports on the battle for Kobani and new disturbing videos from ISIS.

But Harris is first and foremost a storyteller, and his zeal for the story is far more important to him than ideology. When he tells the story of t...

Tom Ricks’ 2012 book, “The Generals” may be the first book ever written where the most explosive parts come in the acknowledgements, jotted after t...

Some of the successful recent hostage rescues such as the operations that freed Buchanan and Thisted, Phillips, and Hallums were operations to free...

It's been a fast year for Chinese hypersonic technology. The WU-14 hypersonic glider vehicle (HGV) flew for a third time on December 2, 2014. The t...

But the problem with these attempts to prioritize critical infrastructure sectors is that these terms are applied inconsistently, and there seems t...

Shane Harris joins MSNBC's The Reid Report to discuss the failed Special Forces attempt to rescue an American hostage held by al Qaeda and U.S. pol...

President Obama nominated Ashton Carter as Defense Secretary on Friday. NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski reports on Carter’s defense background. Then, Ret. A...

And if there was a major cyber attack on U.S. critical infrastructure, "we would see that as the beginning of something, not the end of it. We woul...

Peter W. Singer, former director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence and the author of ”Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Every...

During the height of the U.S. military “surge” in Iraq in 2007, more than 180,000 private contractors were stationed throughout the region, accordi...

I think the really interesting question about the next secretary of defense isn't who gets it, but how many people turn down the job

The Holographic Ground Control Station (GCS) has a large holographic display in front of the pilot station, so that other personnel can oversee and...

Here's a striking excerpt from a new book by Michael G. Waltz titled Warrior Diplomat: A Green Beret's Battles from Washington to Afghanistan. In t...

While the resolution of Chinese imagery satellites has hovered at around 1 meter in the past, the Yaogan 24 would have a resolution of 0.6-0.8 mete...

The NSA's surveillance tactics have been discussed at length, and will continue to be as new information comes to light. In a recent book, author S...

As of today, the United States has now conducted 500 targeted killings (approximately 98 percent of them with drones), which have killed an estimat...

President Obama’s recent decision to send an additional 1,500 U.S. personnel to Iraq “in a non-combat role, to expand our training effort for Iraqi...