Biden Nominates New Air Force Chief as Service Faces China, Recruiting Woes If confirmed, Gen. David Allvin will be responsible for 689,000 active-duty, Guard, reserve and civilian forces.
Military Spouses Deliver Petition Calling for End to Tuberville Blockade on Senior Officer Promotions The spouses, organized by advocacy group the Secure Families Initiative, delivered a petition signed by more than 550...
Alabama Chairman Releases Hold on Air Force Personnel Funds, But Space Command Standoff Continues Efforts to shuffle DoD funding remain caught up in a contentious fight over where Space Command will be headquartered.
Fertility Testing, Artificial Insemination Would Be Available to Troops Under Proposed Bill With the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization bill, Congress is taking steps to broaden assisted reproductive...
Pentagon Defends Abortion Policy Ahead of Senate Fight over Defense Bill Republicans are pushing for a vote on an amendment from Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, that would reverse the Pentagon's abortion...
VA Spars with Republicans over Gun Rights for Veterans Deemed Mentally Incompetent Republicans argue the legislation is a matter of ensuring veterans receive due process before their rights to own a gun are...
Inconvenient Truths for the Next War You would think that Congress, national security policymakers, and generals and admirals would have learned by now.
Court-Martial Convictions Would Need Unanimous Jury Verdicts Under Measure Added to Defense Bill The amendment would change one of the last ways the military justice system differs from civilian courts after a series of...
'Families Get a Huge Vote': Joint Chiefs Nominee Warns Officers Will Leave Military Due to Confirmation Delay Charles "C.Q." Brown, who has been nominated to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned senators that an...
GOP Uses Must-Pass Defense Bill to Thwack at Abortion, Transgender Troops as Legislation Passes House The traditionally bipartisan bill became a battleground for culture war issues this year after far-right lawmakers threatened...
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...