…worth of aircraft – planes which have never been used in Iraq or Afghanistan. In these cases, government actions are often dictated by assessments made by contractors, and costs can…

…was $439.3 billion, up 48 percent from 2001, excluding the vast additional sums appropriated for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to federal regulators and current and former Pentagon…

…secretary, Paul Wolfowitz; Bush’s former special assistant and senior national security adviser, Elliot Abrams; Bush’s former ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad; Bush’s former deputy secretary of state, Richard…

…Granted, some of the companies counted may seem unlikely candidates for being considered defense until you read: As the military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have expanded and transformed, so,…

…American service members back from Iraq and Afghanistan. On paper, Peake seems qualified. Wounded twice in Vietnam, he retired in 2004 from his post as Army surgeon general, the Army’s…

…combat veterans of the Vietnam era’s “wounded generation”: if you truly believe that our Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are like those who fought in World War II, let us provide…

…Reservists and National Guard members who are stationed in or returning from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kuwait. The goal of SOFAR is to provide a flexible and diverse range of psychological…

…surrounding region is home to around two-thirds of the world’s oil reserves. It is also on the shortest route to the oil rich Central Asian states through land-locked Afghanistan. The…

…wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years. The ongoing battle against the insurgency in Iraq may even be called a war. But the “War on Terror” is something different….

…of GDP by 2009 (though not in dollar terms), the administration’s budget document showing this fall is suspiciously vague about the assumptions it incorporates regarding spending in Iraq and Afghanistan,…