Barack Obama will enter the White House without any military experience and with a playbook that emphasizes diplomacy, behind a president who waged two wars and presided over some of the largest-ever ...

Following heavy criticism of his cautious leadership style on Libya, on Friday President Obama gave remarks about the crisis surrounding Col. Muammar Qaddafi’s escalating violence against the Libyan ...

Former President Barack Obama suggested Monday there was a "resistance" in the military preventing its "politicization" by the Trump administration. Obama visited the Crystal Bridges Museum of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Obama administration is cutting the military down to size,and those cuts are far more expansive than mandated bysequestration, reflecting a deliberate strategy toslash the military. Brookings ...

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates is calling out President Barack Obama and the administration for being distrustful of military leadership, NPR reports. Suggested Reading A Peek Inside Mary J.

President Obama gave a likely preview of comments he will make on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, telling the American Legion that men and women of the armed forces have made the U.S. and world safer ...

Former President Barack Obama publicly praised what he described as “resistance” within the U.S. military to partisan pressure during Donald Trump’s presidency. Obama made the remarks during a public ...

President Obama has lifted the two-year ban on new military tribunals for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba he enacted after becoming president. MSNBC’s First Read blog notes the decision does not ...