Republican Lawmakers Re-elected to Key Defense Panels Trump's reform plans for will have to get past the chairmen of the Armed Services Committees who both refused to endorse him.
McCain Doesn't Care What Trump Wants: No Waterboarding McCain said waterboarding doesn't work and is banned under U.S. law and the Geneva Convention.
Stirrings of America After Pearl Harbor Attacks At football games and in homes across America, the nation slowly began to assume a war footing after the Pearl Harbor attacks...
McCain Hits Bomb-Sniffing Elephants, NASCAR Ads as Wasteful Spending Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, is slamming federal spending on programs he said are merely wasting taxpayer dollars.
Trump Criticizes McCain in Tweets Defending Yemen Raid President Trump criticized Sen. John McCain in tweets defending the Yemen raid that resulted in the death of a U.S. Navy SEAL...
The Most Talked About Stories This Week on Military.com Here are the stories generating the most comments this week on Military.com, along with a sampling of responses.
Air Force Presses to Continue Iraqi Pilot Training in US Iraqi pilots flying F-16s carried out their first airstrike in Syria against ISIS targets, in response to Baghdad car...
McCain Wants to Scrap Navy's Frigate Plan, Open Design Competition The Navy's blueprint for a future frigate is short on capability and long on cost, Sen. John McCain said Tuesday.
Lawmakers: Trump's $54 Billion Defense Hike 'Not Enough' The Trump administration's budget proposal would boost defense spending by $54 billion and end the sequester caps.
McCain: No Need for US Ground Troops to Retake Raqqa The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said he sees no need to send U.S. ground troops into Syria to recapture...
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...