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The decision to buy new Boeing F-15s reflects the Pentagon's desire to keep two American companies making fighter jets into the next decade... Read More
Peaceful protests outside of Vilnius, Lithuania, covered widely by the Russian media, abruptly turn violent, with Russian-speaking civilians... Read More
If the Marine Corps is serious about getting ready to take on a near-peer enemy like China in the future, then it's time to fold its... Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States sent Navy and Coast Guard ships through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, the U.S. military said, as part... Read More
The Pentagon is about to attempt what's likely to be the most challenging test yet of the U.S. military's ability to shoot down an incoming... Read More
Five years ago, masked Russian troops in unmarked green uniforms disembarked on the Crimean shore. Within days, Russia annexed Crimea from... Read More
China has developed technology like directed energy weapons and electromagnetic pulses that can dazzle, disable or destroy satellites.New... Read More
For U.S. military aviation, the Defense Department's self-annointed “masterpiece” budget proposal for fiscal 2020 means mostly... Read More
The Air Force is unveiling a new approach to how it will maintain and update its bases, requesting $2 billion in the fiscal 2020 budget to... Read More
It might be of use if the Acting Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) read his own National Security Strategy. We are in a period of... Read More
During a ceremony last year in the 42-acre Medal of Honor Grove in Valley Forge, Pa., one speaker said: “Why did these recipients do... Read More
WASHINGTON — Air Force officials are scheduled to meet this week with Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Ellen... Read More
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Bottom Line: The exaggerated notion of the...
The Army giveth and the Army taketh away. Even as President Trump was in Ohio this week celebrating the rebirth of the nation's only... Read More
States with large military populations get the most defense dollars; Wyoming receives the least. Read More
LIMA, Ohio — David Berger was sworn in as mayor of this one-time industrial boomtown on Dec. 5, 1989. A month later, he was hit with... Read More
Chris Gross of Penndel was a Marine in Vietnam who served in the 1/9 infantry unit nicknamed “The Walking Dead.” But did he earn... Read More
The country that is first to develop and field battlefield lasers will have a distinct military advantage. Directed energy weapons promise to... Read More
Very few court-martial appeals can make it to the Supreme Court. Congress should fix that.For all the debate over the role of the Supreme... Read More
The Navy Reserve has a proud history of wartime service, counting in their ranks six U.S. presidents. It has recently demonstrated superior... Read More
Last month, President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive-4, directing the Department of Defense to draft a legislative proposal to... Read More
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A whopping 87 percent of information security specialists believe we're in the middle of a global cyber war.That comes from Venafi, a firm that provides technologies to large companies to protect their networks against cybercrime. Venafi got opinions expressing this sentiment from over 500 security professionals at the recent RSA conference in San Francisco.Paul Nakasone, head of US Cyber Command, Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States sent Navy and Coast Guard ships through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, the U.S. military said, as part of an increase in the frequency of movement through the strategic waterway despite opposition from China. Read More
