by Spencer Ackerman | May 10, 2013 | Monitor
American pilots can breathe easier. Russia isn’t going to sell Syria the advanced S-300 air defense missile. Not that the Air Force wants to strike Syria, but still.
by Spencer Ackerman | Apr 17, 2013 | Monitor
It’s easier to send U.S. troops into Syria than it will be to end the conflict they’ll get involved in, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned a senate committee.
by Spencer Ackerman | Apr 15, 2013 | Monitor
So far, North Korea hasn’t launched a missile as expected to celebrate its founder’s birthday. But that doesn’t change the U.S. military’s posture on and near the Korean peninsula.
by Spencer Ackerman | Apr 4, 2013 | Monitor
As U.S.-North Korea tensions continue, one of the CIA’s former top Pyongyang analysts says she thinks the North will lash out before tensions actually recede.
by Spencer Ackerman | Mar 12, 2013 | Monitor
Much as they’re a fixture of the post-Iraq and Afghanistan insurgent battlefields, improvised explosive devices have come to the Syrian revolution in a major way.