The dawn of industrialized killing in the trenches of World War I birthed a constellation of euphemisms to gloss over the horrors of mortality in modern war, from “clicking it” to “drawing your full ...

At the Surface Navy Association's annual symposium near the nation's capital this week, one phrase is dominating discussions of strategy: distributed lethality. Distributed lethality is a plan to ...

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The word “lethality” has attached itself to a stream of press releases coming out of the Pentagon. A former secretary of Defense created a whole task force to examine ways to boost lethality of our ...

The new defense secretary’s goals run counter to the military’s apolitical tradition and efforts to build a force that mirrors America. By Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt Reporting from Washington Pete ...