John Walsh looks and sounds like a senator. The Democrat, who replaced retiring Max Baucus earlier this year and is running for reelection this fall, leans on his 33-year as a decorated combat soldier. But like a senator, he may have cheated and stolen to keep that career on track.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he plans to "significantly widen" Israel's ground operations in Gaza amidst news that 27 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier have been killed since troops entered the territory yesterday.

The answer is: yes. "ROYAL MARINES: WE'RE FUCKING UNDEAD AND WE'LL GET YA, MAN."

"Do you want to work for an exciting educational organization, with the children of our dedicated U.S. Military members?", asks the posting on a federal government jobs site. Well, of course you do. Who wouldn't? But do you want to do it at Guantanamo Bay?

"Let me first assure you: We do not have a plan on the shelf for the invasion of Canada," the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told a Senate panel yesterday.

The White House is considering sending U.S. special operations forces to Iraq as the country's northwest collapses under the weight of a Sunni Islamist revolt, unnamed officials told the AP this afternoon.

A 55-year-old guy just graduated from boot camp, 23 years after leaving "what he called 'the best job in the Navy'—a chief explosive ordnance disposal technician—for personal reasons. Or, as he put it, 'to shake off an ex-wife.'" That's Army strong℠!

Sunni insurgents advancing towards Baghdad took two more towns in Iraq last night, seizing control of Saadiyah and Jalawla as Iraqi security forces reportedly abandoned their posts without a fight.

In the past week, Al Qaeda-connected Islamic militants have attacked multiple cities across Iraq and are rapidly consolidating power in the nation that the United States spent so much blood and treasure trying to stabilize. The situation is dire and dynamic. Here's some of what we know.

In retaliation for the last week's attack on Jinnah airport in Karachi, Pakistan, U.S. drones fired missiles at Taliban encampments in the country, killing at least 13 militants.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the Taliban's controversial ex-captive, was speedily dismissed from the Coast Guard for psychological reasons before the Army recruited him, and was reading Atlas Shrugged shortly before he disappeared from his base in Afghanistan.

A friendly fire air strike in Afghanistan's Zabul Province killed five U.S. special operations soldiers and at least one Afghan soldier last night.

As the war in Afghanistan winds down, local police departments across the U.S. are snapping up leftover military equipment like M-16s, grenade launchers, and armored trucks from the Department of Defense. And why wouldn't they, when they're getting the gear for free?

According to an Associated Press report, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has said that he was tortured, beaten, and kept in a cage by Taliban forces while held captive in Afghanistan. Bergdahl spoke of the torture — which allegedly came after he attempted to escape — to people treating him at a U.S. military medical center in Germany.

Conservative culture warriors may want to skip Saturday's big gay pride parade in Washington, seeing as how Dykes With Bikes will be joined by a Pentagon-approved U.S. military color guard—believed to be a first in the nation's history.

An 89-year-old veteran who went missing from his retirement home in Sussex, England yesterday morning has been located: He showed up today on the beachhead of Normandy, medals pinned to his coat, to take in the anniversary celebration of the D-Day invasion.

Conservatives want you to know they're simply telling an inconvenient truth about the bad behavior of U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl and the Obama administration's effort to get him back from Taliban captivity. It's also a truth that's 180 degrees from the truth they tweeted lo, these many years ago!

The old VA secretary is gone and the hospital scandal has fallen from the headlines, but veterans and their advocates continue to share their stories with Gawker. Today's story is from a Persian Gulf vet who says she lost a pregnancy—and years of her life—to VA incompetence.

A former high-ranking attorney for the State Department and National Security Council under George W. Bush says the five Gitmo detainees traded for POW Bowe Bergdahl would have to have been freed soon anyway, so the deal was "a defensible, hold-your-nose compromise."