'Partnered Forces' Strategy Gets Major Boost With Taking of Mosul The defeat of ISIS in Mosul gave vindication to the U.S. military's much-maligned partnered forces strategy.
'Contested,' 'Congested' Syrian Airspace Poses Challenges: General Unlike Iraq and Afghanistan, the air war in Syria involves "multiple players," Lt. Gen. Jeff Harrigian said.
Pentagon Building Case for Air Force Fleet Upgrades The Air Force now has the oldest fleet of bombers, fighters and tankers in its 67-year history.
Obama Holds ISIS Strategy Session at Pentagon President Obama met with the head of the U.S. Central Command and other defense leaders at the Pentagon Wednesday to review...
U.S. Troops Back in Iraq’s Anbar Province Where ISIS Holds Sway About 50 U.S. troops were back in Iraq’s embattled Anbar province to conduct a training site survey at an air base about 100...
ISIS Fires Mortars Near Marines Deployed to Train Iraq Forces Marines at the al-Asad forward training base in western Iraq have come under "regular" harassment fire in recent weeks.
Israel Buys 14 More F-35s as US Denies JSF Sales to Gulf States The Pentagon's top weapons buyer announced Sunday that the U.S. would not yet sell F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to Arabian Gulf...
SOCOM Commander Says Op-Tempo Stressing Special Operations Personnel The commander of U.S. Special Operations Command conceded today that his elite forces are feeling the strain from the ever...
Pentagon and White House See Turnaround in Mideast Strategy Two airstrikes this week against terror leaders and a major victory in Syria against ISIS showed that the U.S. had a strategy...
Pentagon: Syria Rebels Trained By US to Get Defensive Air Cover Syrian rebels will get limited "defensive" air cover, but it's not "mission creep" in Syria's civil war, the Pentagon says.
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...
Trump Administration Threatens No Back Pay for Federal Workers in Shutdown President Donald Trump’s administration is warning of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers during a shutdown.
Teen Cadet Says He Was Beaten, Concussed at Camp at Aberdeen Proving Ground In early August 2022, 17-year-old Nathanael Royal called his parents and begged them to bring him home before he got attacked...
The Civil War Battle Where a West Point Professor Defeated His Confederate Student The Civil War ripped apart nearly every bond Americans shared — classmates, friends, even family members found themselves on...
Army Vet Sentenced to Year In Prison For $80,000 Fraud, Stolen Valor Sharon Toney-Finch, 43, was indicted in April 2024 on four charges: wire fraud, stolen valor, theft of government funds, and...
