In 2008 the U.S. apparently provided more than two-thirds of all foreign armaments deals worldwide.

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China's secretive military launches Web site China's Military Site in English can be found at:

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Is he a patriot or a traitor?

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Good article on Pvt. Robert Gray, who is scheduled for execution for crimes he committed in 1988.

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The Army yesterday promoted the first woman ever to attain the rank of four-star general in the U.S. military, Gen. Ann Dunwoody, a long-awaited step that senior officers described as breaking a "brass ceiling."

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A penguin who is a Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian Army is set to be bestowed with a new military honour. Edinburgh Zoo penguin Nils Olav has been an honorary member and mascot of the Norwegian King's Guard since the 1980s.

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Current U.S. strategy against the terrorist group al Qaida has not been successful in significantly undermining the group's capabilities, according to a new RAND Corporation study issued today.

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U.S. ally Israel may have supplied U.S. military technology to China that is part of the Airforce F-16 single engine jet.

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A northern Tasmanian laboratory is claiming a breakthrough in food research that could boost the morale and health of Australian soldiers.

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ABC News' Jonathan Karl Reports: ABC News has obtained a comprehensive military study of Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism.

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WASHINGTON — Defense experts said U.S. troops in Afghanistan will likely see little immediate effect from Benazir Bhutto's assassination, but could see less border control as that country's military focuses on its other security concerns.

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A former member of Argentina's military government has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for conspiring to murder opponents of the regime during the country's so-called dirty war between 1976 and 1983.

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Nearly six out of every 10 military families disapprove of Bush's job performance and the way he has run the war, rating him only slightly better than the general population does.

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America's military reserves face unprecedented strains.

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The little Bedouin girl had fallen over backwards onto a pan set over an open fire, severely burning her backside, legs and hands.

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Today, I broke my cardinal rule of defense reporting: never be a test subject for a supposedly "nonlethal" weapon. I adopted this rule some time back at a trade show, when I saw somebody pick up a dazzling laser from a booth and point it as his own face at close range.

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If you thought General Sanchez blistered the Bush administration's conduct of the war in Iraq, you formed your opinion from what the mainstream press reported. Unless you heard his entire speech on C-Span, you have no idea of who got blistered.

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Min Min Htun grew up in Myanmar. He arrived in the U.S. just two years ago, after years of hiding in Rangoon and then living in refugee camps on the Thai-Burmese border. He fled because his involvement in the student demonstrations of 1996 had put him and his family in danger.

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Burma's military junta has detained a local UN worker in Rangoon amid continuing arrests and global outrage over the regime's violent clampdown on dissent.

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Buddhist monks are continuing their protests in Rangoon, despite the use of force by the Burmese security forces. People inside Burma have been e-mailing the BBC News website and talking to the BBC Burmese Service about the growing unrest.

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A dozen parts from rocket launchers have been found at the Albury tip on the New South Wales-Victorian border. Albury Council staff found the launchers on Monday during a routine search of waste.

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This seems like a hopeful development. Great analysis.

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The problem with the justification for the Iraq war is now that nobody believes America when it claims that Al-Qaeda is getting assistance from Iran in causing US loss of life, something which appears to be more than real.

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The US Defence Secretary, Robert Gates, has said that Congress should look for ways to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba.

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BAKARIYA, Iraq - The military training teams have worked hard to teach the Iraqi's to run operations with little help from coalition forces, and there efforts are starting to pay off.

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