Carter Orders Navy to Buy Fewer Littoral Combat Ships, Pick One Type Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has ordered the U.S. Navy to buy fewer Littoral Combat Ships than previously planned by...
China Protests $1.8 Billion US Arms Sale to Taiwan China renewed its territorial claim to Taiwan in protesting the $1.83 billion U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.
Lockheed Files Federal Complaint over Humvee Replacement Deal Lockheed Martin Corp., has filed a complaint in Federal Claims Court over the U.S. Army's selection of Oshkosh Corp. to build...
Marine Corps Shelves Futuristic Robo-Mule Due to Noise Concerns The Marines' barrel-chested Legged Squad Support System -- known affectionately as the robotic mule -- has been put out to...
US Increasingly Dominates Global Arms Trade: Congressional Report The U.S. increasingly dominates the global arms trade, with agreements totaling about $36 billion last year.
Bush's View: America Must Lead against New Generation of Threats In this exclusive commentary to Military.com, the Republican presidential candidate makes the case for greater investment and...
US Lawmakers Propose Bill to Limit Purchases of Russian Rocket Engines Key GOP lawmakers plan to file legislation repealing a Defense bill provision allowing the Pentagon to buy an unlimited...
Army Chief Wants Power to Select New Pistol The U.S. Army's chief of staff said that if he had his way, he'd abandon the bureaucratic Modular Handgun System effort.
F-35 Cost May Drop to $85 Million by 2019 The Pentagon's fifth-gen fighter program is on course to realize significant savings in coming years, the program manager...
Army Pushes Back Against Reported Interest in Glock Contract The U.S. Army hasn't decided on "one handgun or another" as a replacement for the M9 pistol, according to Army public affairs...
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...
