Military recruiters have been directed to start signing up gay men and lesbians who apply for the armed forces — and also to regard the don’t ask, don’t tell law as suspended until the fate of the controversial policy is settled by the courts or Congress. Meanwhile, a federal judge who earlier found don’t ask, [...]
The old pornographer Larry Flynt, whose nasty taunting of the Moral Majority’s Jerry Falwell a generation ago helped create broad free speech protections for defendants in tort cases, may have offered the most useful perspective of all this week when asked to discuss the legal and moral implications of Snyder v. Phelps, the gut-wrenching military [...]
The military officer corps is rumbling with dissatisfaction and dissent, and there are suggestions from some that if officers disagree with policy decisions by Congress and the White House, they should vigorously resist. Officers have a moral responsibility, some argue, to sway a policy debate by going public with their objections or leaking information to [...]
The military officer corps is rumbling with dissatisfaction and dissent, and there are suggestions from some that if officers disagree with policy decisions by Congress and the White House, they should vigorously resist. Officers have a moral responsibility, some argue, to sway a policy debate by going public with their objections or leaking information to [...]
U.S. service members receive some of the best technical and management training and experience in the world, but when they return to civilian life, they are often overlooked as job candidates because employers don’t give them credit for their skills, First Lady Michelle Obama said Thursday. “Members of our military master state-of-the-art technologies — some [...]
A former military contractor who produced bullet-resistant vests and other body armor used in Iraq and Afghanistan was convicted on Tuesday of fraudulently enriching himself from company funds through the kind of extravagant spending embodied in his purchase of a $100,000 belt buckle, The New York Times’s A.G. Sulzberger reports. The contractor, David H. Brooks, [...]
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