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TAMPA, Fla. — Special Operations Command is planning to release solicitations next year for machine guns that are expected to give... Read More
The Senate Armed Services Committee is looking for more information from the Navy before it will support buying additional ships in Fiscal... Read More
The Donald Trump administration faces growing pressure from U.S. lawmakers to freeze the sale of F-35 jets to Turkey as the NATO ally holds... Read More
WASHINGTON — The Turkish government has vowed reprisals if the U.S. Congress passes a defense policy bill that prevents the... Read More
“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” --... Read More
Arlington National Cemetery, the burial ground for veterans or active-duty forces that is revered as hallowed ground in the U.S., came into... Read More
The Senate Armed Services Committee's version of the 2019 defense budget would increase research and development spending by about $1.2... Read More
As the country takes a day to say ‘thank you' to those who have served, many businesses are offering greater discounts and freebies to... Read More
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Friday the cold feet on a U.S.-North Korea summit may have just warmed back up after... Read More
Ethnic tension in eastern Syria is increasing, to the delight of the jihadistsAS THE territory held by Islamic State (IS) shrivelled in... Read More
The FBI is warning that Iranian hackers could conduct new cyber attacks on American businesses and government networks in response to the... Read More
In the book Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, malicious viral information is deliberately spread by a nefarious actor to infect computers and... Read More
United Technologies disclosed yesterday that it expects to hire 35,000 employees in the United States over the next five years, a number... Read More
Hindsight is 20-20.That's true for the Air Force National Guard colonel who recently became part of a military-wide scandal when he... Read More
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – With a Marine down and several dozen heavily-armed enemy fighters approaching his location, 1st Lt. Philip H.... Read More
A U.S. F-16 Fighting Falcon from Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, crash landed during a routine training flight near the... Read More
President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran was not his first departure from a key... Read More
If one were to make a list of “what Kim really wants” in his discussions with the U.S., such would be quite... Read More
The CONOPS development, review, approval, and notification processes were pro-forma and did not reflect the detailed, deliberate planning and... Read More
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As the U.S. Navy expands its aircraft fleet with the fourth-generation F/A-18E/F Block III Super Hornet and... Read More
Beyond the 24/7 dining facilities and the seemingly abundant supplies of everything, there is one thing all French soldiers are jealous of... Read More
According to a press release, about 20 members of the HMS Queen Elizabeth team witnessed F-35B test aircraft BF-02 and BF-04 taxi, perform... Read More
An Air Force T-38 training jet crashed in Mississippi on Wednesday. Both pilots ejected safely, but with Memorial Day fast approaching, the... Read More
If China's intentions in the South China Sea weren't quite clear, this month should have removed doubt. News reports said China had installed... Read More
The sequence of events that culminated in the brutally efficient slayings of 24 unarmed civilians in a residential enclave of Haditha on Nov.... Read More
There has been much gnashing of teeth and complaint in response to the U.S. Navy's slow build toward a goal of 355 ships. Peacetime naval... Read More
TAKING COMMAND OF WHAT, EXACTLY: Lt. General Scott Miller has been nominated as the next commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, which would... Read More
With a focus on restoring readiness and lethality to the military, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Fiscal Year 2019 National... Read More
TAMPA, Fla. — Special Operations Command requires new tools to help commandos sift through the vast amount of information they come... Read More
Traditional deterrence is transparent, certain, and rational. … The new approach to deterrence … embraces the chaos.The world... Read More
News reports coming in are based on early information and have not been confirmed. Current reports are that a U.S. airline carrying almost... Read More
It's clear that the continent's political and military leaders are wrestling with the implications of artificial intelligence. But debate... Read More
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As part of its ongoing expansion of operations in and around Africa, the U.S. military has recently begun operating drones from a Greek... Read More
It's not easy being in charge of foreign relations of a country most of the world refuses to recognize.Taiwan lost another ally on Thursday.... Read More
In war, no weapon or technology matters as much as leadership. That's what the Senate Armed Services Committee wants to modernize the... Read More
From the Report:In the years following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Navy has carried out a variety of irregular warfare... Read More
Military drills on the Korean Peninsula are always a source of tension, but this year's Max Thunder exercises were on another level.They're... Read More
The U.K.'s Royal Air Force is exploring the possibility of using constellations of cubesats and other mini-satellites to increase the... Read More
An Air Force T-38 training jet crashed in Mississippi on Wednesday. Both pilots ejected safely, but with Memorial Day fast approaching, the crash is a reminder that military service involves dangers seldom encountered in civilian life -- even when warfighters are not operating near hostile forces. Read More
The FBI is warning that Iranian hackers could conduct new cyber attacks on American businesses and government networks in response to the Trump administration's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal. Read More
From the beginning, the summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un was slated to be a strange event. What were Kim and Trump to even talk about, given how far U.S. and North Korean positions on nuclear weapons were from each other? Would Trump simply wing it through the negotiations? Overall, the historic magnitude of a sitting U.S. president meeting with a North Korean leader made it difficult t Read More
