Carter Warns About ISIS Push in Iraq and AQAP Threat in Yemen Defense Secretary Ashton Carter acknowledged that a resurgent ISIS was threatening to take the capital of Anbar province in...
Carter Says Military Would Lose $38 Billion with Stopgap Spending Plan Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday that projected budget cuts would take a heavy toll on the Air Force.
Builders Defend Littoral Combat Ships after Carter Orders Program Cuts In the wake of a memo from Carter ordering a reduction in the Navy's buy of Littoral Combat Ships, the two companies...
DoD Reveals Operation Inherent Resolve Medal for Campaign against ISIS Thousands of U.S. troops who have deployed in support of the mission against ISIS are now eligible for a new medal, officials...
Top Pentagon Leaders Welcome New Secretary of the Army DefSec Carter and Army Chief of Staff Milley welcomed the Army's new secretary into his job today at a ceremony in Arlington.
Carter: Opening Combat Jobs to Women 'Makes Sense' Trump faces calls from some conservatives to undo the women-in-combat provisions, which affects a large portion of the...
Carter Blasts GOP Plan to Use War Funds for Base Defense Budget The top civilian at DoD slammed Republican lawmakers' plan to use emergency war funding to get around spending caps.
Carter Says US Wants Deal With Russia on Syria, Ukraine Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said the U.S. is looking for compromise with Russia on Syria and Ukraine.
Deadline Approaches for Services to Submit Women-in-Combat Plans The Navy has already submitted its plan to integrate women into its Special Warfare community to Defense Secretary Ashton...
Cyber Command Gets 'First Wartime Assignment' in Fight against ISIS The DoD's relatively new Cyber Command has received its "first wartime assignment" in the fight against the Islamic State.
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...
