Female vets in Congress slam Hegseth’s repost of Christian Nationalist
Pastors in the video said they want the U.S. to be a Christian republic, adding calls for criminalizing homosexuality and for women to submit to husbands.
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Could Golden Dome funding get next-gen interceptor back up to speed?
A piece of the $175 billion Golden Dome pie could give the Next Generation Interceptor a boost to shore up a development delay.
China has practiced bombing runs targeting Guam, US says
U.S. forces are adjusting how they would execute a conflict with China as incursions increase.
US promises up to $60M for anti-extremist force in Africa
The U.S. pledged up to $60 million Monday to help a 5,000-soldier African force get going on fighting extremists in western Africa’s vast Sahel region, but Washington remains cool to putting U.N. resources into the nearly $500 million-a-year effort as Sahel countries look to the world body for financing.
Tillerson: US could stay in Iraq to fight ISIS, wanted or not
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Monday night that American forces will stay in Iraq in order to defeat the Islamic State group, even if the government in Baghdad requests the U.S. leave.
After 16 years, congressional debate on military force authorizations remains stalled
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis testified before senators Monday that a new force authorization in the war on terror would be welcome, but isn't needed.
This week in Congress: Mattis and the AUMF debate
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of October 30, 2017.
US agrees to provide South Korea more weapons, upgraded defenses
The South Korean defense minister said the U.S. and South Korea were hammering out the technical details “to expand rotational deployment of U.S. strategic assets.”
Trump announces the Pentagon’s top Asia, technology nominees
The White House has announced Michael Griffin and Randall Schriver will be its new tech head and Asia policy lead at the Pentagon, respectively.
Pentagon tech advisers want special career track, ‘innovation elevator’ for big thinkers
A group of tech industry heavyweights thinks it is past time for the Pentagon to create a specialized career track for high-tech jobs.
Logisticians need to get deceptive, supplies must be distributed
Conventional forces will need to think and act like special operations forces when it comes to supplying troops.
