2024 Atlas of Military Compensation
The following is the Jan. 30, 2025, Congressional Budget Office report, Atlas of Military Compensation.…
Senate and House Committees Reach Defense Bill Compromise
The House and Senate armed services committees have agreed to a last minute compromise defense bill that would authorize funds…
Document: Fiscal Year 2014 National Defense Authorization Act Fact Sheet
From the Dec. 9, 2014 fact sheet on the Fiscal Year 2014 summary of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)…
Shutdown: Without More Funds Veterans Could Lose Benefits as Early as November
Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki told the House Veterans Affairs Committee on Wednesday he would have to deliver…
Proceedings: Naval Institute at 140
Sometimes in the throes of the monthly and bimonthly Proceedings and Naval History deadlines we lose sight of just how…
Former Vietnam Advisor: Giap Was ‘As Ruthless as Mao and Stalin’
The architect behind the 1954 North Vietnamese victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu was a “a dedicated killer…
Government Shutdown: The Basics
With the House voting again to delay for a year the start of the Affordable Care Act and repealing a…
Opinion: ‘Never Forget’
The following story originally appeared in Proceedings, September 2011. A decade later, a former naval officer recalls the day he was working in…
Updated: History of U.S. Policy and Law on Gays in the Military
On June 26, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down provisions in the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The restrictions…
Document: Pentagon Sequestration Impacts In Detail
From the introduction from the June Department of Defense Report on the Joint Committee Sequestration for Fiscal Year 2013: This…