The Pentagon’s F-35 Office Has No Idea What an F-35 Looks Like Between missed readiness goals and rising costs, the Defense Department’s F-35 Joint Program Office likely has other stuff to...
Trump Is Likely to Name a Loyalist as Pentagon Chief After Tumultuous First Term While President-elect Donald Trump has yet to announce a decision, the names of potential Pentagon chiefs stretch from the...
US Will Appeal Judge's Ruling That 9/11 Defendants Can Plead Guilty and Avoid the Death Penalty Rear Adm. Aaron Rugh, the chief prosecutor, sent a letter Friday to the families of 9/11 victims informing them of the...
From the Internet Boom to the Press Room: Military.com's 25 Years of Work for the Troops When Military.com started in 1999, it wasn't clear whether it would survive the rough and tumble dot-com boom in which...
Defense Secretary Calls for Calm Transition, Apolitical Military Ahead of Trump Transition The memo comes as the Trump campaign begins planning its transition and staffing for the Pentagon and other federal agencies...
Plea Deals Revived for Alleged 9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Others A military judge has ruled that plea agreements struck by alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co...
Trump Won. Here's What That Could Mean for the Military. Trump's election victory means he will have the opportunity to enact plans to use the military against what he calls domestic...
Pentagon Works to Restore Benefits After Data Transfer Boots Coast Guard, NOAA and Other Beneficiaries from Tricare Problems related to transfer of personnel records resulted in beneficiaries temporarily losing coverage.
Pentagon Bolsters the US Presence in the Middle East with Bomber Aircraft and Warships Austin ordered several B-52 Stratofortress bomber aircraft, tanker aircraft and Navy destroyers to deploy to the Middle East...
Army Investigating Gen. Kurilla, Head of Central Command, over Allegations He Shoved an Airman One of the Pentagon's top generals is under investigation for allegedly shoving an airman on a flight in early September, a...
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...