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07.20.2009 9:01 pm

The F-22 debate: a crisis in microcosm

the F-22 requires 30 hours of maintenance for every hour in flight.

One slight problem: the F-22 requires 30 hours of maintenance for every hour in flight.

Congress this week is engaged in one of those debates that makes you want to throw up your hands in despair over the political process. At…

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04.08.2009 9:00 pm

Gates signals dark days for military-industrial complex

We'll buy fewer of these.

F-22 Raptor: We'll buy fewer of these.

In his farewell address as president, Dwight Eisenhower, who knew a thing or two about war, coined the phrase “military-industrial complex” to describe the “conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry…

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