President 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.
Read moreA Pentagon spokesman says authorities found at least two packages suspected of containing ricin, a poison made from castor beans.
Read moreMultiple failures led up to the deadly Niger attack last October, but top military leaders said Thursday that none directly caused the overwhelming enemy ambush that killed four American service members and sent others fighting and running for their lives.
Read moreDefense contractor General Dynamics touted a $9.6 billion takeover Monday of the internet-technology company CSRA. The move comes on the heels of the Pentagon’s biggest budget appropriation in its history.
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It’s the biggest budget the Pentagon has ever seen: $700 billion. That’s far more in defense spending than America’s two nearest competitors, China and Russia, and will mean the military can foot the bill for thousands more troops, more training, more ships and a lot else.
Read moreEchoing the spectacles of totalitarian regimes, President Donald Trump’s plan for a military parade bewildered historians and veterans groups alike Wednesday.
Read moreIn an abrupt reversal, the U.S. military on Tuesday said it made a mistake when it ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with information about U.S. war efforts in Afghanistan that help to measure how the 16-year-old stalemated war is going.
Read moreThe Pentagon has known for at least two decades about failures to give military criminal history information to the FBI, including the type the Air Force didn’t report about the accused Texas church killer who assaulted his then-wife and stepson while serving as an enlisted airman.
Read moreBy RICHARD LARDNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A British company hired to train Afghan intelligence officers billed the U.S. government
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