Despite South China Sea Tensions, Air Force Commander Sees No Overt Intercept Threat The head of Pacific Air Forces Command said leaders are monitoring the buildup of surface-to-air missiles and other defenses.
US Plans Changes to Exercise Foal Eagle with South Korea The Defense Department is changing up a major exercise it holds annually with South Korea, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said...
The South China Sea and US-China Trade Policy: Are They Becoming Linked? The Trump Administration may use U.S. trade policy as a way of constraining China's ability to to fund an military expansion.
North Korea Is the Reason US Kept Cluster Bombs, Official Says The U.S. reversed its plan to ban cluster munitions last year and kept its dated stockpiles for one reason: North Korea.
Pentagon Blocks Request to Send Marine Embassy Guards to Taiwan DoD officials have declined a State Department request to send about a dozen Marines to guard a de facto embassy in Taiwan.
No Plans to Cancel More Military Exercises with South Korea: Mattis Jim Mattis said DoD is coordinating with State Department officials on how future negotiations with North Korea transpire.
Coast Guard Could Send Ship to Pacific to 'Temper Chinese Influence' More members of the Coast Guard could be headed to the Asia-Pacific region and Africa next year.
Korea Remains Could Be Army Troops Who Fell at 'Frozen Chosin' The remains returned by North Korea could be those of Army troops who fell at the Chosin Reservoir battle.
Navy's Bottlenose Dolphins Hunt Mines in RIMPAC Exercise Dolphins joined the world's largest military maritime exercise in search of mines buried at the bottom of the sea.
Mattis: Return of Korea Remains Raises Hope for Renewed Searches The remains of 55 U.S. troops missing from the Korean War will be sent back to Hawaii next week.
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...
