PARIS (Reuters) - With development and technology challenges on the Lockheed Martin Corp <LMT.N> F-35 fighter increasingly under control, the company and the U.S. military are taking aim at a more vexing problem: the cost of flying and maintaining the new warplane.Full story
U.S. Marine Corps veteran and military sexual assault survivor Sarah Plummer joins Mara Schiavocampo to discuss sexual assault in the military. She comments on what she calls the extreme importance of taking assault cases out of the chain of command because of the need to have impartial people decid
Affirmative action has been a pet issue for some of our Supreme Court justices and they just may now have the chance they've been waiting for. The guests talk about whether the country is seeing affirmative action challenges because people really think we’re in a color-blind society.
Former prosecutor Linda Fairstein and Anu Bhagwati, executive director of the Service Women’s Action Network, talk with Karen Finney about why they believe all military commanders aren’t equipped to handle sexual assault cases.
As some military sexual assault victims face retaliation for speaking out, the Melissa Harris-Perry panelists look at how the military is a notoriously male-dominated space and whether what happens is part of a “boys will be boys” mentality.
Former Marine Lt. Tim McLaughlin why he hid the American flag that was once placed on a statue of Saddam Hussein in downtown Baghdad just before it was toppled 10 years ago.
MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts talks to Ray Mabus, Secretary of the Navy, about President Barack Obama’s visit to the Newport News Shipyard to warn about the impending sequester cuts.
Chris Matthews talks to Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and Capt. Zoe Bedell, who filed a federal lawsuit to demand combat action for women, about the lift on ban that allows women in combat, but the debate coming forward from women who have been serving in combat for years.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel greets Deputy Chairman of the NATO Military Committee U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant General Walter E. Gaskin during a NATO defence ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels June 4, 2013. NATO defence ministers concerned about the growing presence
A biker in Rolling Thunder returns the salute of a man dressed in Marine Corps uniform in Washington May 26, 2013. The 26th Annual Rolling Thunder is organised to show support for veterans past and present, and those who have fallen in war or missing in action. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STAT
A man dressed in Marine Corps uniform salutes bikers in the Rolling Thunder ride in Washington May 26, 2013. The 26th Annual Rolling Thunder is organised to show support for veterans past and present, and those who have fallen in war or missing in action. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES - T
U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft participate in a U.S.-South Korea joint landing operation drill in Pohang, about 370 km southeast of Seoul, April 26, 2013. The drill is part of the two countries' annual military training called Foal Eagle, which began on March 1 and runs until April 30. Ten
