The Bill for the Afghanistan War Is $2.26 Trillion, and Still Rising The greatest single expense came in the Defense Department's Overseas Contingency Operations spending, the report states.
COVID-19, Civil Unrest: Have Too Many Homeland Missions Damaged Trust in the Military? In a time when Americans seem more divided than ever, experts say the military is caught in a difficult balancing act.
For the First Time, a Woman Has Been Nominated to Lead the Army The Biden administration plans to nominate Christine Wormuth, a former top Defense Department official, as the first female...
'Fighting on All Fronts': Deported US Veterans Cautiously Optimistic Biden Will Bring Them Home At least 250 veterans were deported or in deportation proceedings between 2013 and 2018, according to a GAO report.
Biden's 1st Budget Request Sidelines Defense Spending in Favor of Massive Domestic Investments President Joe Biden issued his first budget proposal, requesting $753 billion for defense-related spending, an essentially...
Pentagon Announces Tougher Extremism Screenings for New Military Recruits The Defense Department plans to add questions about current or past extremist behavior to screening questionnaires given to...
For Aspiring Transgender Recruits, Pentagon's New Policies Mean 'Dreams Coming True' The Pentagon's announcement did away with the Trump administration's directives restricting transgender people from joining...
Nearly Half of DoD Employees Got More Productive When They Started Teleworking The Pentagon's inspector general said in a report that 47% of respondents reported that their productivity increased while...
DoD Pledges to Make COVID Vaccine Available to All Beneficiaries by May So far, 1.8 million shots have been administered to more than 1.1 million Defense personnel and beneficiaries worldwide.
Defense Department Took 22 Days to Create 'Silly Bear' Meme to Roast Russian Hackers Cyber Command took more than three weeks to design and fine-tune the meme before posting it -- an eternity in the fleeting...
Trump Reportedly Weighs Immediate Discharge of All Transgender Troops. Here's What That Would Mean. The proposed plan, as first reported by the Times of London, would entail signing an order within days of Trump taking office...
The Best Amazon Black Friday Week 2024 Deals for Service Members, Veterans and Their Families America’s favorite shopping holiday isn’t just a single day, or even a weekend, anymore. Here’s how U.S. service members...
Overseas Troops to See Fewer Sweets, More Sweet Potatoes on Their Holiday Tables This Year For some unexplained reason, the Defense Logistics Agency is shipping 800% more sweet potatoes overseas than it did last...
For Soldiers at Fort Carson, Food Is Scarce As Americans gather for Thanksgiving feasts, soldiers at Fort Carson, Colorado, are contending with a far less festive...
Musk, Ramaswamy Proposal to Slash Spending Could Include VA Medical Services Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy confirmed that they plan to target "unauthorized" federal spending, a category that includes...