The Defense Secretary and the Chain of Command: Why Critics Are Wrong About Austin's Emergency "Public officials should be careful not to convey to the world the mistaken impression that the United States is a helpless...
Defense Secretary Austin Summoned to Capitol Hill for Testimony About Secret Hospitalization If Austin agrees to testify, it could be the first public airing of his thought process since the Pentagon disclosed earlier...
Free Surgeries and Prescriptions: White House Staff Got Access to Military Health Care Despite Being Ineligible According to the report, from 2017 through 2020, the Defense Department "funded and resourced care for an average of 6 to 20"...
Defense Department Expands ID Card Renewals by Mail to US-Based Retirees, Dependents While in the past the renewed card had to be retrieved in person at a local ID card facility, it will instead be delivered by...
Pentagon Inspector General to Investigate Defense Secretary's Failure to Notify Key Officials of Hospitalization The DoD inspector general is an independent and objective agency, and its findings will be separate from those of the Office...
Austin's Secret Hospitalization Prompts Congressional Inquiry, Calls for Hearings Chairman Mike Rogers sent letters to Austin, his chief of staff and Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks demanding a stack...
Defense Secretary Austin Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer that Led to Further Hospitalization for Infection The information on Austin's ongoing medical issues was released by doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in...
Inside the Pentagon's Failure to Notify the White House, Congress of Defense Secretary's Hospitalization Despite the Pentagon's explanation, it remained unclear exactly how or why Austin effectively hid a health emergency for...
Denied Care, Deaths in Japan Result from Lack of Emergency Medical Services for American Personnel Military commanders in the region have been instructed to assess the situation and take action.
New Arctic Pay for Troops Was Passed by Congress a Year Ago. But the Pentagon Waved It Off. More than a year after it was passed in the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, the Pentagon has not enacted a new...
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...
