JIEDDO: The Manhattan Project that bombed

By Peter Cary and Nancy Youssef

The Pentagon’s main effort to counter improvised explosive devices has spent $17 billion, but the results have been disappointing by almost

Leaked report details failure to get armored vehicles to Marines in Iraq

By Nick Schwellenbach

The report featured in USA Today. When Marines in Iraq urgently asked for armored vehicles particularly resistant to improvised explosive d

Pentagon’s slow adaptation to a war-footing

By The Center for Public Integrity

The Department of Defense is often slow and unresponsive to those in combat, instead operating at peacetime speed
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Lack of armored protection for troops

By The Center for Public Integrity

The U.S. military didn't give troops enough armor because they assumed troops wouldn't face an insurgency

Pentagon whistleblower Franz Gayl is reinstated

By R. Jeffrey Smith

Senior Marine Corps science advisor Franz Gayl wins case, plans to return to work