Defense Secretary Austin Says Alliance with Philippines Will Transcend Administrations U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin condemned China's dangerous actions against the Philippines and renewed a warning that...
US and Philippines Sign a Pact to Secure Shared Military Intelligence and Weapons Technology The United States and the Philippines signed an agreement on Monday to secure the exchange of highly confidential military...
US Will Appeal Judge's Ruling That 9/11 Defendants Can Plead Guilty and Avoid the Death Penalty Rear Adm. Aaron Rugh, the chief prosecutor, sent a letter Friday to the families of 9/11 victims informing them of the...
Defense Secretary Calls for Calm Transition, Apolitical Military Ahead of Trump Transition The memo comes as the Trump campaign begins planning its transition and staffing for the Pentagon and other federal agencies...
Defense Secretary Austin Makes Surprise Visit to Kyiv for Talks on Supporting Ukraine's Fight Against Russia U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Kyiv on an unannounced visit, hours after a Russian drone attack on the...
Sending a THAAD Air Defense System to Israel Adds to Strain on US Army Forces The deployment of a U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel and roughly 100 soldiers to operate it will...
US Will Send a Missile Defense System and Troops to Run it to Israel to Aid Defense Against Iran The delivery of the sophisticated missile defense system risks further inflaming the conflict in the Middle East despite...
Lawyer for News Organizations Presses Guantanamo Judge to Make Public a Plea Deal for 9/11 Accused The plea agreement would have spared Mohammed and two co-defendants the risk of the death penalty, in exchange for their...
Increase DoD Child Care Staff Pay 'as Quickly as Possible,' Senators Tell Austin Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Rick Scott, who lead oversight of Pentagon personnel policies, are pushing the department to...
Amid Latest Quality-of-Life Tweaks for Troops, Defense Secretary Says He Wishes He Could Move Faster SecDef Austin, along with first lady Dr. Jill Biden, traveled to Maxwell Air Force base in order to highlight the latest...
How the Government Shutdown Impacts Veterans and the VA While most vets won't be impacted by the ongoing government shutdown, concerns may ramp up the longer it persists.
Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Administration from Sending National Guard Troops to Oregon A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon at all, after...
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...
Veterans, Who Saw One of Their Own Arrested by ICE and Charged, Say Feds Are Undermining Democracy Days after a 70-year-old Air Force veteran was among five people charged while protesting outside a suburban U.S. Immigration...
As Hegseth Orders Changes to the Pentagon Watchdog, Advocates Say It Will Silence Complaints Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accused the independent watchdog for the Pentagon of being “weaponized” and says he’s...
