Last January the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission proposed replacing the current triple option TRICARE benefit with a menu of commercial insurance options, similar to t
Defense Secretary Ash Carter unveiled the "first tranche" of his Force of the Future initiatives Wednesday.
On the eve of Veterans' Day, the Senate passed a bill with language to grant "honorary" veteran status to as many as 200,000 Reserve and National Guard retirees those not deemed veterans now becau
Rep. Joe Heck (R-Nev.) is a brigadier general in the Army Reserve, a soldier-physician thrice deployed and also a discerning commissary shopper.
The budget agreement reached by the president and Congress last Friday gives the Pentagon all but $5 billion of the president's $612 billion 2016 budget request.
The Pentagon's last two budget plans to "reform" the commissary benefit for military families and retirees were driven by a goal to save money, without due regard for preserving the benefit, accord
The year was 1964. Speaking at Akron University on Oct.
An op-ed in Wednesday's New York Times asks, "Are We Losing Afghanistan Again?" The article was written in response to the president's announcement last week that the U.S.
Two weeks ago, the House and Senate veterans affairs committees quietly allowed a provision of the Agent Orange Act of 1991 to expire.
VA Secretary Bob McDonald told the House Veterans Affairs Committee Wednesday that a $68 million, 4,000-page study of VA health care it ordered last year and accepted last month uncovers the same w
In an article entitled "The Unending War" reacting to last Saturday's air strike on a "Doctors Without Borders" hospital in Afghanistan's embattled Kunduz city, London's Economist lament
Military members and families have little to cheer from compromises House and Senate conferees have reached as they finalized details of key personnel provisions in the fiscal 2016 defense authoriz
Thirty-one House members, most of whom, public records show, got campaign dollars from compound drug lobbyists, are pressing the Defense Department to soften rules set in May that block TRICARE cov
The Department of Defense is modifying its approach to reform the commissary benefit with new guarantees to preserve overall shopper savings and also to avoid pay cuts for current employees, accord
Perhaps the most significant life-saving advancement in combat medicine in Afghanistan and Iraq was refinement of tourniquets and training to keep wounded warriors with shattered or missing limbs
Defense Secretary Ash Carter's "Force of the Future" initiative is expected to include a unique Defense Digital Services office that, within a year, would hire up to 100 top designers, developers a
Perhaps to a degree not seen before, news outlets, politicians of every stripe and wounded warrior charities have turned an intense spotlight on problems service members and veterans have faced on
Every year, hundreds of technically or tactically skilled officers and non-commissioned officers, trained at great expense, leave the military for the private sector, not because their skills aren'
One of the Army's signal achievements in the post-Vietnam War institutional resurrection that began in the late 1970s was the establishment of the National Training Center at Fort Irwin,
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter next month will be presented with a package of detailed proposals for reshaping military and defense civilian pays, promotions and quality of life, all of which stri
Defense officials appear ready to ask Congress to repeal a law that commissaries must sell products at cost plus 5 percent, a formula that for decades has ensured commissary shoppers eve
Dodgy companies peddling pricey compound pharmaceuticals have fleeced the TRICARE program so severely this year, before tougher screening procedures took effect May 1, that they are largely to blam
Earlier this week, an anonymous donor - possibly my distinguished editor - gifted me with a book that I really should have read a long time ago: retired Army colonel and historian Gian G
The Veterans Choice, Access and Accountability Act of 2014, which Congress rushed to pass last summer to address a patient wait-time scandal at dozens of VA hospitals and clinics, spurred VA to bro
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