Acting SecDef Spencer's First Order: Send 2,100 More Troops to Border One thousand Texas National Guardsmen will joint 1,100 active-duty troops on the border in the next several weeks.
Bill Would Require DoD to Share Water Contamination Data with Local Communities House version of the NDAA requires the Pentagon to share data on possible contamination from PFAS.
Esper Refuses to Recuse Himself on Raytheon Matters in SecDef Confirmation Hearing In heated exchanges, Warren demanded to know whether Esper would recuse himself on DoD decisions involving Raytheon.
Esper Pledges 'Tough Decisions' on China, Russia if Confirmed as Defense Secretary If confirmed, he said one of his "personal priorities" would be improving the living standards of military families.
Esper's Industry Ties May Haunt Him in SecDef Confirmation Hearing Army Secretary Mark Esper's ascent to secretary of defense may be challenged by his ties to the defense industry.
Esper Nomination Triggers Another Leadership Switch-Up at Pentagon As of Monday afternoon, Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer is officially the Pentagon's acting defense secretary.
House Advances Effort to Overturn Pentagon Restrictions on Transgender Service The legislation still needs to be reconciled with the Senate's version of the national defense bill.
Senate Sets Date for Esper's Defense Secretary Confirmation Hearing For the first time since January, the Pentagon may have soon have a Senate-confirmed secretary of defense.
Questions Remain as DoD Gets Ready to Cut 18,000 Medical Personnel Pentagon officials are keeping quiet on details surrounding a plan to cut 18,000 medical billets across the military.
Defense Department, VA Gear Up to Host Suicide Prevention Conference The biennial suicide prevention conference will be held Aug. 26-29 in Nashville.
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...