America's Largest Combatant Command Is Getting a New Name U.S. Pacific Command will be called U.S. Indo-Pacific Command moving forward, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said.
Cyber Command Elevated to Combatant Command Nakasone assumed command of Cyber Command and the NSA from Navy Adm. Michael Rogers during a change-of-command ceremony .
Trump Argues for Pulling Out of Syria as CENTCOM Chief Pushes to Stay Gen. Joseph Votel wants to keep U.S. troops in Syria; President Donald Trump wants them out.
Army Screening 30 US Cities for Home of New Futures Command Service officials say they need access to academics and business leaders for a new modernization reform effort.
SOCOM Grappling With New Counter-WMD Mission U.S. Strategic Command recently passed the leadership role in counter-proliferation to SOCOM.
CentCom Commander Visits USS Carl Vinson Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, commander, U.S. Central Command, spoke to the crew of aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson.
Central Command's Twitter, You Tube Hacked To Post Threats to Troops CENTCOM's social media accounts have been hacked to post threatening messages to U.S. troops, purportedly from ISIS...
Planned Drawdown of US Forces in Afghanistan May be Premature: Centcom The outgoing Centcom commander told lawmakers it may be time to reconsider the plan to reduce US military forces in...
Report: Navy Aircraft Involved in Iraq Search-and-Rescue Mission A mission to recover a U.S. Army reconnaissance plane that went down March 5 in northern Iraq included Navy helicopters and...
Army General Tapped for Central Command Opposes No-Fly Zone in Syria Army Gen. Joseph Votel told lawmakers that he did not support establishing a no-fly zone to protect Syrian refugees.
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...