House Passes Defense Bill, Boosts Troop Pay Raise The U.S. House of Representatives passed a $601 billion defense bill that would spare cuts to military benefits next year.
Pentagon Expects Major Cuts in War Funding The move to bring all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan at the end of 2016 will mean major cuts in supplemental funding.
Army Fires Officers After Ordering Them to Move The Army last week began notifying 1,100 captains that they will be purged from the ranks. The same fate is awaiting 500...
Congressman Says Wrong Time to Dry Dock Cruisers Lawmakers believe that the Navy's plans to pull half of its cruiser fleet out of commission for expensive upgrades will mean...
Amos: Tough Road Ahead For Dunford as Commandant Gen. James Amos outlined budget and personnel challenges ahead for his successor as Marine commandant.
Captains Deployed to Afghanistan Get ‘Pink Slip' At least 48 Army captains serving in Afghanistan are among nearly 1,200 captains who have essentially been given pink slips.
Army Cutting 500 Majors Starting Next Week The Army will send notices to 500 majors next week that they must leave the service, the outgoing Army vice chief of staff...
Iraq Airstrikes Paid for by Military's OCO Budget The current U.S. air campaign in Iraq is being paid for from Overseas Contingency Operations funding.
Army Officer Firings Blamed on Bad Evals, Not Race Eight in 10 of the U.S. Army majors being dismissed from the service had poor evaluations or otherwise bad marks.
US Operation Against ISIL Costs Over $500 Million The costs have averaged $7.5 million per day and include money for airstrikes, surveillance and arms shipments.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
