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The U.S. House of Representatives easily passed a bill to repeal the much-reviled ’Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ policy of expelling openly serving gay military personnel. It now goes to the Senate & then, if it passes there, the president’s desk.

At Army training sites across the nation, the mess hall is beginning to look different. Milk and juice dispensers are replacing soda fountains.

Katherine Miller couldn’t stay in the closet, so, in August she came out. Now, she wants to return to the military academy as a cadet -- under a new military policy.

The Air Force is warning its troops to be careful when using Facebook and other popular networking sites because some new features could show the enemy exactly where U.S. forces are located in war zones.

The Log Cabin Republicans have taken their court fight against the military ban on openly gay serving military personnel where everyone knew it would end up: the U.S. Supreme Court, in defiance of Obama’s pledge to bring it to the lame-duck session.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily granted the Obama Administration’s request for a freeze on a judge’s order requiring the military to allow openly gay troops.

Of what confidence there is in institutions, the military and small business are at the top in an Associated Press-National Constitution Center poll released Thursday. But even they get very-confident or better ratings from well under half the people.

The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network has gone to court to block the discharging from the Air Force of Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach, a decorated combat veteran.

Warfare is not all about guns and bombs; disinformation and psychological manipulation can also be potent weapons. But on the fringes of those tactics are discarded ideas that are too impractical--or sometimes too ridiculous--to be workable.

On the outside, it looks like a normal SUV. But the prototype "autonomous robot car" - fitted with sensors and scanners, multifocal camera systems and powerful computers - might one day help avoid military fatalities from bombings and ambushes - or so its designers hope.