Analyst's Fix For Bankrupt Pentagon Military analyst Frank Hoffman lays out his plan to restore solvency to American strategy by trimming Pentagon spending and...
China Tests Obama; US Ship Threatened After two years of escalating maritime friction, China has sent a very clear message to the Obama administration: stay out of...
US Army Confirms Israeli Nukes; Israeli Aid At Stake The Army has let slip one of the worst-kept secrets in the world -- that Israel has the bomb. But <a href="http://www.jfcom.mil/newslink/storyarchive/2008/JOE2008.pdf">a Defense Department study</a>...
Afghan Strategy Marks Soft Power Shift If you read the tea leaves around Washington the beginning of the shift in power from the Pentagon to the State Department...
Pirates Take US Ship; Prosecute or Plug Em? <strong>UPDATED: CAPTAIN Freed; SEALs Slay Three Pirates. Crew Retakes the Ship, Pentagon Says! Early Reports Indicate At Least One</strong>...
Iraqi Lessons For Af-Pak Troubles With Pakistan and Afghanistan slowly disintegrating under pressure from the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the time seems ripe to...
Fix Pakistan, Tie Strings to Aid America's national security interests lie fundamentally in Pakistan, not in Afghanistan, and the United States needs a...
Lynn Pushes Acquisition Reform The Pentagon’s chief buyer laid out his plan to reform a broken acquisition process, beginning with ending costly weapons...
Debate: Outside QDR Red Team? At Wednesday's House Armed Services Committee budget hearing, Rep. Mac Thornberry, one of the most consistently thoughtful...
'Incompetent' Navy Wastes Money Former Navy Secretary John Lehman stepped forward today and laid out the Navy's shipbuilding problems in stark terms. The...
Fort Stewart Soldiers Who Fought Gunman, Provided Care to Wounded Recognized for Valor The soldiers were awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for what Secretary of the Army Dan Driscol described as a combination...
US Air Force to Deny Retirement Pay to Transgender Service Members Being Separated from the Service The U.S. Air Force has decided to deny early retirement options for transgender service members with 15 to 18 years of...
VA to End Bargaining Agreement Contracts with Most Unions The Department of Veterans Affairs said the move supports an executive order from President Donald Trump that canceled...
Fort Stewart Army Base Shooting Raises Questions About Military Gun Policies A shooting that injured five soldiers at one of the country's largest military bases has resurfaced questions about a long...
A South Carolina War Hero Is the Namesake for the Navy’s Newest Destroyer The U.S. Navy is adding a new battleship, and its namesake will be a South Carolina war hero.
![President Barack Obama awards retired Marine Cpl. William "Kyle" Carpenter, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry](http://images01.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-08/ApNewsroom_Obama.JPEG.jpg?itok=UKIqEhsJ "President Barack Obama awards retired Marine Cpl. William "Kyle" Carpenter, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry, Thursday, June 19, 2014, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)")