Hegseth calls for extensive reforms to Pentagon drone-buying practices
The memo directs the military services to create active duty formations by September, built for the sole purpose of scaling the use of drones across DOD.
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US resumes sending some weapons to Ukraine after Pentagon pause
The defense secretary directed the pause last week to allow DOD to assess its weapons stockpiles, in a move that caught the White House by surprise.
US pushes for home countries to take back detainees in Syria
The United States is urging allied nations to help deal with the growing number of foreign fighters that are being held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, saying the militants should be turned over to face justice in their home countries.
Pentagon 2019 budget: Here's what the military wants to buy
President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2019 budget request includes planes, ships, trucks and many, many bombs.
This week in Congress: Onto the fiscal 2019 budget
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of Feb. 12.
Niger incident report coming soon, Mattis says
A final report on the October attack in Niger that left four Americans dead is coming soon, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said.
Future of captured foreign fighters in Syria unclear
The Syrian Defense Forces are capturing dozens of ISIS fighters a day. What happens to those who can't go home?
FY19 budget puts US ‘back to a position of primacy,’ Mattis says
Is the Trump military buildup about to get underway?
Mattis: ‘Too early to tell’ if Olympics will lead to North Korea breakthrough
Jim Mattis is doesn't see a major change in relations between the two Koreas from the Olympics- at least, not yet.
A Pentagon budget like none before: $700 billion
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.
So you think you want a grand military parade?
It is easy enough as an American to witness such a spectacle and wonder why the U.S. military does not parade like the Russians do. In four years of witnessing these parades in Moscow, I have concluded that it is only something that a government that feels politically or militarily insecure would do.
