WASHINGTON, June 2 (UPI) -- When the world was young and hope dared live in Washington, a small group of people put together something called the Military Reform Movement. Its purpose was to measure U.S. defense policies and programs by the standard of what works in combat rather than who benefits financially. Launched in the 1970s, it peaked in the early 1980s and was gone by 1990. Why did it fail? It failed because, in a contest between ideas and money, the money always wins.

ARLINGTON, Va., May 27 (UPI) -- Imagine that in 1902, Secretary of War Elihu Root had told U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt the difficulty of suppressing the Philippine Insurrection proved future weapons would need to be useful in conducting irregular warfare. I know, you aren't so clear on what the Philippine Insurrection was. But it was a big deal at the time: 130,000 U.S. troops were deployed in a multiyear counterinsurgency campaign, and more than 4,000 of them died. U.S. forces tortured prisoners. Insurgents committed atrocities. Very messy.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Out of the 34 U.S. Senate seats being contested in the fall election, 14 are in the northeastern and midwestern United States. These two regions were for many y

WASHINGTON, April 25 (UPI) -- America's streets are no safer, nor are there 100,000 more police officers patrolling them, as a result of former President Bill Clinton's Community Oriented Po

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Capital Comment -- News notes, political rumors, and important events that shape politics and public policy in Washington and the world from United Press Intern

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