Pentagon Can Only Hope to Keep Paying Troops, Carter Says Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says he wants to keep paying the troops but can only offer hope on a budget resolution.
Pentagon Wins in Budget Deal with Higher Defense Spending Caps Under the agreement, the DoD would see financial relief with higher limits on base defense spending through 2017.
House Passes Budget Deal That Would Boost Defense Spending Caps The House passed a bipartisan budget deal that would provide financial relief to the Defense Department over two years.
Budget Deal Trims Bomber, Destroyer, Missile and Drone Programs U.S. lawmakers wasted little time in identifying which programs to trim as part of a bipartisan budget deal that required...
House GOP Leaders Look to Boost Spending in Campaign Against ISIS Republicans are looking at ways to increase funding for combating ISIS through the account for Overseas Contingency...
Obama Sees Need for More US Icebreakers: Former Coast Guard Commandant The president wants to expand the country's icebreaker fleet for the Arctic, a former commandant of the Coast Guard says.
Congress Should Authorize Military Action Against ISIS: Pentagon The Pentagon's top civilian and military leader told Congress on Tuesday that troops would like to see them vote an...
Spending Deal Includes Funding for 1.3% Troop Pay Raise, More Weapons U.S. lawmakers early Wednesday agreed to a $1.1 trillion spending deal for the fiscal year that includes funding for a 1.3...
Bush's View: America Must Lead against New Generation of Threats In this exclusive commentary to Military.com, the Republican presidential candidate makes the case for greater investment and...
White House May Backtrack on Defense Budget Deal: Thornberry Rep. Mac Thornberry is concerned the White House will renege on the recent federal budget deal and reduce planned levels of...
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...
