Hagel Setting Out On Last Trip as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will begin his last trip to U.S. bases as defense secretary ahead of Senate confirmation hearings his replacement...
Next Defense Secretary Open to Keeping A-10 in Air Force Ashton Carter agreed to hear arguments from JTACS for keeping the A-10 despite renewed efforts by the Air Force to retire it.
New Defense Secretary Breezes through Nomination Process The Senate approved Ashton Carter Thursday as the next secretary of defense in a vote that saw only five nays.
New SecDef Says President Obama Needs Military’s Help New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Thursday that President Obama needs policy guidance from a military perspective.
Defense Hawks Win Support for War 'Slush Fund' The House of Representatives has voted in favor of a fiscal 2016 budget that includes almost $100 billion in war funding for...
Petraeus Disagrees with Carter, Says Iraqis Have ‘Will To Fight’ Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus disagreed with Defense Secretary Ashton Carter's charge that the Iraqis lacked the will to...
Pentagon Awards Deal for Wearable Devices in Silicon Valley Push The Defense Department awarded a contract for wearable electronic devices as part of a push to work more closely with Silicon...
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...
