Unit's fight for better anti-IED software won after heavy casualties
Months before the Army's ill-fated 5th Stryker Brigade was to leave Washington state in the summer of 2009 for the war in Afghanistan, its commander became convinced that he needed a particular type of...
View ArticleGreen Berets held back in Islamic State fight by flawed intelligence system
Army Green Berets planned for a wide range of actions in Iraq this year but bemoaned the sorry state of U.S. intelligence assets in the country to help the local security forces find and kill Islamic...
View ArticleMichael Flynn says Army must ditch war data network DCGS
An Army general who reached the pinnacle of military intelligence says his service's war-deployed data analytical network is a flop and needs to be stopped, rebuilt and renamed.Retired Lt. Gen. Michael...
View ArticleObama administration sues Peter Thiel; Palantir; conservatives see political...
A bitter struggle between an innovative Silicon Valley software inventor and the Army has shifted from the raging battlefields of Afghanistan to a sedate federal claims court in Washington.For years,...
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