Showdown Looming: Senate Takes Moderate Route, House Pushes Culture Wars in Annual Defense Bill The two chambers will now have to find common ground on the starkly different versions of the National Defense Authorization...
House Republicans Vote to Block VA from Changing Motto to Include Female Veterans The VA would not be able to "modify or remove any display" of the mission statement it adopted 64 years ago under an...
Bill Would Ban Discrimination in Military 75 Years After Racial Integration Policies barring discrimination in the military based on race, gender and other innate characteristics would be enshrined in...
Biden Nominates New Air Force Chief as Service Faces China, Recruiting Woes If confirmed, Gen. David Allvin will be responsible for 689,000 active-duty, Guard, reserve and civilian forces.
Military Spouses Deliver Petition Calling for End to Tuberville Blockade on Senior Officer Promotions The spouses, organized by advocacy group the Secure Families Initiative, delivered a petition signed by more than 550...
Alabama Chairman Releases Hold on Air Force Personnel Funds, But Space Command Standoff Continues Efforts to shuffle DoD funding remain caught up in a contentious fight over where Space Command will be headquartered.
Fertility Testing, Artificial Insemination Would Be Available to Troops Under Proposed Bill With the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization bill, Congress is taking steps to broaden assisted reproductive...
Pentagon Defends Abortion Policy Ahead of Senate Fight over Defense Bill Republicans are pushing for a vote on an amendment from Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, that would reverse the Pentagon's abortion...
VA Spars with Republicans over Gun Rights for Veterans Deemed Mentally Incompetent Republicans argue the legislation is a matter of ensuring veterans receive due process before their rights to own a gun are...
Inconvenient Truths for the Next War You would think that Congress, national security policymakers, and generals and admirals would have learned by now.
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...
