The Pentagon is considering several options to reduce the number of troops in Afghanistan, including one that would shift to a narrower counterterrorism mission, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Congress on Wednesday.
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The Pentagon on Tuesday ordered a broad review of vetting procedures for international students who get training on U.S. military installations and demanded the process be strengthened, in reaction to last week’s deadly shooting at a Pensacola Navy base by a Saudi aviation student.
Read moreA Pentagon official who was expected to shed greater detail about the lengthy holdup of U.S. military aid to Ukraine saw her deposition waylaid Wednesday after two dozen Republican lawmakers stormed the closed-door hearing armed with cellphones and refused to leave.
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The United States is sending a Patriot missile battery and four ground-based radar systems to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said Thursday, calling it the first steps to help the kingdom protect itself from Iranian attacks.
Read moreThe Pentagon on Friday announced it will deploy additional U.S. troops and missile defense equipment to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as President Donald Trump has at least for now put off any immediate military strike on Iran in response to the attack on the Saudi oil industry.
Read moreThe Pentagon is pulling the plug on a billion-dollar, technically troubled project to build a better weapon that would destroy incoming missiles. The move is aimed in part at considering new approaches to missile defense at a time of rapid technological change.
Read moreIn the nearly four years since the Pentagon announced it was opening all combat jobs to women, at least 30 have earned the Army Ranger tab, two have graduated from Marine infantry school and three have passed the grueling initial assessment phase for Green Beret training.
Read moreIn a major break with a longtime ally, the Trump administration on Wednesday said Turkey is being kicked out of an American-led fighter aircraft program because it is buying a Russian air defense system that would aid Russian intelligence.
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s pick for new defense secretary is an Army veteran who served in the first Iraq war and also has experience as a national security adviser on Capitol Hill as well as a defense industry lobbyist.
Read moreIt’s a difficult time for the Pentagon to be without a permanent secretary of defense. The Trump administration is grappling with an escalating crisis with Iran, a controversial deployment of troops to the Mexican border, the nearly two-decade-old war in Afghanistan and stalled talks with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program.
Read moreThe United States and Iran edged toward a flashpoint Monday as Tehran announced it was breaking compliance with the accord that keeps it from making nuclear weapons and the Trump administration followed by ordering 1,000 more troops to the Middle East.
Read moreThe Pentagon has told the White House to stop politicizing the military, amid a furor over a Trump administration order to have the Navy ship named for the late Senator John McCain hidden from view during President Trump’s recent visit to Japan.
Read moreThe Pentagon on Thursday will present plans to the White House to send up to 10,000 more troops to the Middle East, in a move to beef up defenses against potential Iranian threats, U.S. officials said.
Read moreAmid a battlefield stalemate in Afghanistan, the U.S. military has stopped releasing information often cited to measure progress in America’s longest war, including body counts, calling it of little value in fighting the Taliban insurgency.
Read moreBacking their call for $13.8 billion to launch the U.S. Space Force as a separate branch of the U.S. military, Pentagon officials faced an uphill battle Thursday in trying to get the Senate on board.
Read morePresident Donald Trump is nominating the Air Force general in charge of U.S. Strategic Command to be vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Read moreTop defense leaders are expected to get a barrage of questions when they face worried lawmakers on Capitol Hill for the first time since the Pentagon spelled out the military construction projects that could lose funding this year to pay for President Trump’s border wall.
Read moreThe Pentagon’s inspector general has opened an investigation into a watchdog group’s allegations that acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has used his office to promote his former employer, Boeing.
Read moreWASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is planning to tap $1 billion in funds from military pay and pension accounts to help President Trump pay for his border wall, a top Senate Democrat said Thursday.
Read moreIn its first report to include details on alcohol use, the Pentagon reported Thursday that sexual harassment at U.S. military academies rose by nearly 50 percent since the last year’s survey.
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