Inside SecDef Jim Mattis’ $2.5 Billion Plan to Make the Infantry Deadlier DoD is investing in weapons, unmanned systems, body armor, training and new technology for close-combat forces.
Leap-Ahead Technologies: Could They Be the Army's Undoing? The Army has already gambled big on the future once -- and lost.
More Veterans Seek Pardons for Combat-Zone Convictions Michael Behenna is one of several veterans who have gone to prison for committing combat-zone crimes.
Mattis Wants Ground Combat Units to Be More Lethal in the Close Fight The U.S. Military's top leader has launched an effort to make ground forces deadlier in close combat.
Pentagon's New Deploy-or-Out Policy Could Separate Up to 286K The policy grew out of Mattis' directive to the services to take steps to improve the "lethality" of the force.
US Acknowledges Ground Ops, Over 120 Airstrikes in Yemen This Year U.S. Central Command did not give any details on when and where the ground attacks were carried out.
SecArmy Warns of Stressed Force Amid Push to Add Thousands of Soldiers McCarthy said the service may need to cut back on the number of missions it conducts worldwide if it doesn't get more...
Air Force Prioritizing Combat Units Amid Maintainer Shortage: General Facing a shortage of maintainers, the Air Force is giving staffing priority to air combat units with high operations tempo.
White House Adds Confusion to Trump Phone Call Controversy The president's daughter-in-law says there's a transcript of the phone call; the White House says there isn't.
Niger Attack: Final Farewell Saturday for Sgt. Johnson Mourners gathered Friday night for a public viewing at Christ the Rock Church in Cooper City, Fla.
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...