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Naval professionals often express interest in bringing back small, fast surface combatants like the patrol-torpedo (PT) boats of World War... Read More
The popular imagination remembers World War I as a tale of trenches, mud, rats, and barbed wire. But the grinding ground war between the... Read More
For almost two decades, China has been designing and building its answer to America's B-2 long-range stealth bomber, and Chinese state media... Read More
I am submitting this letter to urge that the General Officer Memorandum of Reprimand (GOMOR) on Capt. Michael Perozeni not be filed.I am a... Read More
The United States faces a "crisis of national security" because its historic military supremacy has eroded drastically, leaving it likely... Read More
Lockheed Martin Corp. LMT -0.77% has been awarded a roughly $22.7 billion contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to... Read More
Plum Island, N.Y. – The team of grid operators had spent days restoring power when a digital strike took out one of two operational... Read More
The undersea warfare community wants to boost attack sub lethality by providing new payloads for the Virginia-class SSNs, especially ones... Read More
The US Navy used an MH-60S helicopter-mounted laser system to scan and detect underwater mine-like targets earlier this year during the... Read More
The Air Force's “The Force We Need” goal of reaching 386 squadrons, which was rolled out with much fanfare in September, is not... Read More
Our ground combat forces are not ready for the harsh realities of combat against a near-peer adversary. Our enjoyment of air supremacy and... Read More
What would happen if demand for Alcoa's 50,000-ton press were to double overnight? Since 1955, the United States has owned exactly one... Read More
At a time when many soldiers paced around Europe in tanks, John Abizaid first made a name for himself in the Army by ordering his troops to... Read More
Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced his resignation on Wednesday in protest at a Gaza ceasefire that he called a... Read More
The price tag of the ongoing “war on terror” in the Middle East will likely top $6 trillion next year, and will reach $7 trillion... Read More
On U.S. military bases, families battle powerful private landlords and limited tenant rights, a Reuters investigation finds Read More
TYNDALL AFB, Fla. — The most badly damaged F-22s are now flyable and will depart here within days as more than 1,300 airmen work to... Read More
A prior-enlisted sailor who oversaw the training of 10,000 of the Navy's newest personnel has been removed from his job. Read More
A single fingerprint on a suspicious package mailed to Rep. Maxine Waters helped authorities nab the man who... Read More
Tens of thousands of young men and women serve in the junior ranks of the U.S. Army. Their stories almost never get told. History records the... Read More
Abstract: In recent years, Iran has projected its power across the Middle East, from Lebanon and Syria to Iraq and Yemen. One of the... Read More
Russia's five day war with Georgia in 2008 was victorious, but brought to light a number of inadequacies in Russia's military forces and... Read More
President Donald Trump is doing a huge favor for Chinese leader Xi Jinping — and he should keep doing it. His... Read More
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The Air Force is taking the next steps to test, develop and produce a new class of “more penetrating” bunker buster weapons to... Read More
The amphibious force may get a massive capability overhaul, if a plan by the Expeditionary Warfare Directorate (OPNAV N95) to increase... Read More
The biennial Zhuhai Airshow held in southern China always presents an opportunity for Chinese military watchers to observe some of the latest... Read More
The U.S. Army today publicly released its new policy for dealing with soldiers who are non-deployable for administrative reasons, just over a... Read More
The two companies responsible for producing chaff and flares for U.S. military aircraft could be poised for a major shakeup, and the Pentagon... Read More
It is time for Europe to wake up to an emerging threat on its eastern flank.Russia is actively sponsoring Europe's right-wing and populist... Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Tuesday that NATO was the cornerstone for the protection of Europe even as... Read More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday endorsed the creation of an EU army, siding with French President Emmanuel Macron whose similar... Read More
The U.S. military will request more money to develop lasers, microwave beams, and other directed-energy defenses to fight off missiles and... Read More
Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan pushes back on criticisms that massing 5,800 troops on the border is needless, a hit to morale."For us, it's a... Read More
An Army competition seeking technology from startups discovered a pair of new power sources that may help soldiers lighten their loads in... Read More
In the early 1990s, the end of the Cold War gave rise to a global movement to rid former war zones of land mines, which were littered across... Read More
The Air Force Research Laboratory is taking a page from wartime weapons prototyping to buy a modern replacement for its aging legacy business... Read More
The House is set to vote on a bill this week that would formally institutionalize a North African counterterrorism program — and give... Read More
What would happen if demand for Alcoa's 50,000-ton press were to double overnight? Since 1955, the United States has owned exactly one machine with that capacity, and as recently as 2012, it was necessary to produce every single manned aircraft used by the U.S. military or manufactured by Boeing. It weighs 16 million pounds. Making a second or third just to have for excess capacity, is not feasibl Read More
