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An US F16 fighter jet takes off from a Romanian air base in Campia Turzii, Romania, Thursday, April 10, 2014. Some 450 U.S. and Romanian troops are taking part in the Dacian Viper 2014 joint military exercise in Transylvania, northwestern Romania flying U.S. F-16 fighter jets of the U.S. 31st Fighter Wing alongside Romanian Mig-21 Lancers.The weeklong exercise, the fourth of its kind, was planned before Russia&#8217;s recent annexation of Crimea, according to officials.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Flying blind: Russia blocks U.S. from treaty-approved spy flights

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Free Beacon

High hopes: The MQ-9 Reaper will be tested to determine whether flight time can be extended by housing fuel in its wings. (U.S. Air Force via Associated Press)

Fuel-filled wings, ability to swarm: Pentagon offers glimpse at future of drone fleet

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Armed pro-Russian activists walk through a street near to the seized Ukrainian regional administration building in the eastern Ukrainian town of Slovyansk, Ukraine, Monday, April 14, 2014. Ukraine's acting president urged the United Nations on Monday to send peacekeeping troops to eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian gunmen kept up their rampage of storming and occupying local government offices, police stations and a small airport. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Obama urges Putin to defuse Russian separatism in Ukraine

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A man tries to protect a Ukrainian police officer beaten by a pro-Russian mob that stormed a police station in Horlivka, eastern Ukraine, Monday. A pro-Russian mob seized a police building in yet another city in Russian-leaning eastern Ukraine, defying government warnings that it was preparing to act against the insurgents. (Associated Press)

Red tape in U.S. ties up critical gear for Ukraine

By Bill Gertz — The Washington Free Beacon

After the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service was awarded to The Washington Post, reporters and editors gather in the newsroom in Washington Monday, April 14, 2014, as contributing writer Barton Gellman describes the effort that went into a series of stories on the government’s massive surveillance program based on information leaked by National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden. The disclosures showed that the NSA has collected information about millions of Americans’ phone calls and emails based on its classified interpretations of laws passed after the 2001 terrorist attacks. The Pulitzer Prizes, journalism’s highest honor, are given out each year by Columbia University on the recommendation of a board of journalists and others. This is Gellman’s third Pulitzer honor. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pulitzer for NSA coverage echoes tradition in news

By BRETT ZONGKER - Associated Press

Illustration on military preparedness by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

CARAFANO: Our Army’s uncivil war

By James Jay Carafano

Golden Hammer: Pentagon paid too much for Humvee repairs

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Image: Des Moines Register video screen shot

Iowa town gets giant mine-resistant vehicle for ‘terrorist attack’ or ‘something bad’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced that he authorized releasing details of the U.S. cyber warfare doctrine to China in a bid to win cooperation from Beijing. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Hagel releases cyber warfare plans to China

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

FILE - This Jan. 9, 2014 file photo shows a mockup of a Minuteman 3 nuclear missile used for training by missile maintenance crews at F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo. In launching an ambitious campaign to boost morale in a troubled nuclear missile corps, the Air Force is retracing steps it took at least five years ago, revisiting proposed reforms that either died on the vine or fell short of fixing problems that persist. The earlier effort included some of the same ideas being floated today by a new set of Air Force leaders, including bonus pay and other incentives meant to make more attractive the work of the men and women who operate, maintain and secure an Air Force fleet of 450 Minuteman 3 nuclear-tipped missiles. Then, as now, the Air Force also looked for ways to eliminate “disincentives” -- things that can make missile duty onerous. (AP Photo/Robert Burns, File)

U.S. will cut deployed nuke missile force by 50

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks after signing the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) at the Prague Castle in Prague on April 8, 2010. UPI Photo/Alex Natin.

U.S. will cut deployed nuke missile force by 50

Associated Press

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signs legislation, Monday, March 24, 2014 at the Indiana Career Council Meeting at the Indiana State Library. Indiana is the first state to withdraw from the Common Core reading and math standards that were adopted by most states around the country. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Rob Goebel)

Indiana assured that Pakistani firm working to thwart bomb makers

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Uniform repair in Iraq. (U.S. Army photo)

U.S. picks up $700 million tab for coalition’s food and laundry in Afghanistan

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

People gather near a barricade built up to thwart police from retaking the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, late Monday. (Associated Press)

Republicans hit administration for timid response to Russian war gaming

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

The Pentagon said 4 percent of all active-duty military women in 2010 and 6 percent in 2012 were victims of "unwanted sexual contact" in the previous 12 months. (Associated Press)

Doubts on military’s sex assault stats as numbers far exceed those for the U.S.

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE - This Feb. 12, 2008 file photo shows retired Gen. Larry Welch testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. Welch. chosen by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to explore flaws in U.S. nuclear forces signed off one year ago on a study describing the nuclear Air Force as “thoroughly professional, disciplined” and performing effectively. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)

Retired general taking another look at nuke corps

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

FILE - This Feb. 12, 2008 file photo shows retired Gen. Larry Welch testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. Welch. chosen by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to explore flaws in U.S. nuclear forces signed off one year ago on a study describing the nuclear Air Force as “thoroughly professional, disciplined” and performing effectively. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)

Investigator gave nuke force positive 2013 review

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

**FILE** Sgt. Al Smoot, of Harold, Calif., part of a U.S. Medevac team, gives CPR to a U.S. soldier in the emergency room of the U.S. military hospital at Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on June 7, 2009. (Associated Press)

Military needlessly overpaid millions for overseas health care, says watchdog

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Illustration on military problems by M. Ryder/Tribune Content Agency

MAGINNIS: Putting the military on the defensive over sex

By Robert Maginnis