Senior Officer Promotions to Be Slowed by GOP Senator over Pentagon's Abortion Policy While a single senator cannot prevent confirmations, placing a hold requires the Senate to use valuable floor time to hold...
Spouse Satisfaction with Military Life at a New Low, DoD Survey Finds Fewer spouses are expressing support for their service member to stay in the military, according to a 2021 DoD survey...
Air Force Under Secretary Jones, an LGBTQ Trailblazer, Is Stepping Down The Air Force's second-highest ranking civilian, Under Secretary Gina Ortiz Jones, is stepping down from her role after a...
Military Pilots Reported 1,700% More Medical Incidents During the Pandemic. The Pentagon Says They Just Had COVID The Defense Department said that more than 3,887 medical diagnoses among pilots in 2022 that triggered reporting requirements...
Like War, Peace Is Too Important to Be Left to the Generals "History provides several examples of what happens when generals try to play foreign policy kings."
Senators Push DoD to Do 'Proactive' Outreach to Soldiers Booted from Tricare in IT Glitch The leaders of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee are calling on the DoD to conduct a review of Tricare after recent...
Democrat Threatens to Hold Up Pentagon Nominees over Space Command HQ Decision U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet voted against confirming Brendan Owens as assistant secretary of defense for energy and...
The Military Must Do More to Help Junior Service Members Find and Pay for Child Care In the military, one of the most stressful parts of relocating to a new assignment, second only to finding a home, is...
Troops Saw More UFOs, But New Pentagon Report Provides Few Answers For anyone looking for extraterrestrials, or even Chinese spying, the 12-page unclassified report will likely be a letdown.
Pentagon Funding in Question After House Fight over Speakership One of the promises Kevin McCarthy made to win over his critics was to trim overall government spending to the dollar figure...
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...