- Walter Pincus
- Fine Print
Walter Pincus reports on intelligence, defense and foreign policy for The Washingon Post. He first came to the paper in 1966 and has covered numerous subjects, including nuclear weapons and arms control, politics and congressional investigations. He was among Post reporters awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Among many other honors were the 1977 George Polk Award for articles exposing the neutron warhead, a 1981 Emmy from writing a CBS documentary on strategic nuclear weapons, and most recently the 2010 Arthur Ross Award from the American Academy for Diplomacy for columns on foreign policy.
Navy special forces units: How many needed?
Questions remain about how much money the Navy is spending on irregular warfare and counterterrorism forces that are different from activities better performed by other services.
Obama’s critics on Middle East should consider the numbers
Walter Pincus notes a steady buildup in the number of U.S. ships and aircraft available for possible new military action.
Defense’s money-management woes
FINE PRINT | The Defense Department has problems managing the huge sums of money it has received during a decade of warfare, when hundreds of billions of dollars overwhelmed its ability to oversee outlays.
The high cost of a defense label
If the Reagan years had their government-created welfare queens, this past decade has seen the enrichment of Pentagon-supported “warfare millionaires.”
- Iran, Israel waging silent war
- Lawmakers, media are duplicitous on leaks
- Pounding home the details, and missing the facts
- House debate on defense bill spending finds one bit of bipartisan light
- House GOP shouldn’t rush to judgment on cyberweapon ‘leaks’
- CBO says military health-care costs could soar
- Swords into plowshares
- Battling IEDs has to be about more than money
