It’s an exciting time to be alive for space nerds. The rise of the commercial spaceflight industry has sparked rapid-fire advancements in both technology and affordability when it comes to launching satellites and manned spacecraft. Companies like ...
President Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of defense said China will be America’s paramount military challenge in the years to come. “China is the top priority,” retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, Biden’s presumptive defense secretary, told the Senate ...
A helicopter crash in upstate New York on Wednesday evening killed three National Guard soldiers. The UH-60 Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter was reportedly on a training exercise when it crashed at about 6:30 p.m. in a farm field near ...
On his final day in office, President Donald Trump issued 73 pardons and 70 commutations. Conspicuously, one high-profile name was not on that list: Edward Snowden, the former Central Intelligence Agency employee and contractor for the National ...
Like many good ideas, the Tampa Bay Frogman Swim began over a cup of coffee. Just over a decade ago an area journalist named Terry Tomalin challenged a 17-year-old named Sam Farnan, who aspired to be a Navy SEAL, to accompany him on a swim across ...
In a 1951 speech before Congress, Gen. Douglas MacArthur famously evoked a line from an old soldiers’ folklore song, declaring: “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.” Similarly, America’s post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have nearly ...
In the wake of last week’s deadly raid on the US Capitol, the National Guard plans to deploy some 20,000 troops to defend Washington in advance of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next week. And after the FBI warned about violent protests in ...
The CIA has released a trove of unclassified files related to unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. Comprising more than 700 documents dating back to 1976, the CIA files reveal information about worldwide sightings of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, ...
President Donald Trump said he will skip President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration in Washington on Jan. 20. That decision complicates one of the world's most important transfers of military power — the assumption of command and control authority over ...
French military forces in West Africa suffered a series of deadly improvised explosive device attacks over the past two weeks, marking a worrisome uptick in violence for France’s counterterrorism campaign against Islamist extremists in the embattled ...
The Army is reinstating a program to provide its personnel a temporary pay bump for deployments longer than nine months. Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston announced the change over the weekend, calling the move a way to ease the burden on ...
There is a secured room in the basement of the US Capitol where some of the country’s most important military and intelligence secrets are kept. Known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF, the House Intelligence Committee ...
Wednesday’s raid on the US Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters has sparked mixed reactions around the world. Many of America’s adversaries reacted to the news with marked schadenfreude (a German term denoting pleasure gained ...
A sordid chapter in the history of America’s special operations community is nearing its end. In its wake, an Army Special Forces soldier is dead, and four other elite special operators — two Navy SEALs and two Marine Raiders — have all faced a ...
The next war will be dynamic and disruptive. To prepare for it, some US military leaders have embraced a mindset of “creative destruction” in order to challenge orthodoxy, adopt revolutionary changes, and even question how success should be defined ...
After a half-century hiatus, NASA plans to resume manned spaceflights to the moon by 2024. As that deadline nears, and the development of the hardware to make it happen steadily proceeds, the storied American space agency recently unveiled the crop ...
While American ground forces complete their withdrawal from Somalia, the US Navy and Marine Corps have parked some serious firepower offshore in the Indian Ocean — sending a stark warning to the al-Shabab terrorist group that any attempt to ...
A Department of Defense agency announced on Wednesday that its investigators had positively identified the remains of an Army soldier killed during the Korean War’s Battle of the Chosin Reservoir in December 1950. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting ...
KYIV, Ukraine — The US Air Force Band posted online a remarkable a cappella performance of the Ukrainian Christmas classic — “Carol of the Bells” — as a tribute to the US-Ukrainian partnership. Originally written by Ukrainian composer Mykola ...
KYIV, Ukraine — As Ukraine goes into its eighth calendar year at war with Russia, about 5% of its annual defense budget is now in limbo following US President Donald Trump’s veto on Wednesday of America’s 2021 defense spending bill — a measure that ...
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin reputedly proclaimed that artillery is the “god of war.” The US Army has apparently taken that famous maxim to heart as it prepares for a new era of great power competition against its former Cold War foes, Russia and ...
More than 70 US Military Academy cadets are accused of cheating on a math exam, marking one of the most sweeping cheating scandals in the institution’s 218-year history. According to multiple news reports, instructors noticed irregularities in the ...
The US has charged a former senior Libyan intelligence officer and bomb-maker — who worked for the regime of deposed dictator Moammar Gadhafi — for his role in the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The Department of Justice announced ...
It's become something of a holiday season tradition for the US and Iran to tiptoe to the edge of war. A barrage of rockets was fired at the US Embassy in Baghdad on Sunday, underscoring what some US defense officials say is the elevated threat ...
Military officials from US Africa Command have been warning for months about the threat posed to the US homeland by Islamist extremist groups based in Africa. That simmering threat nearly boiled over into a "9/11-style" terrorist attack by the al ...
Space is no longer the battlefield of the future — it’s already a contested “warfighting domain,” within which the US, Russia, and China are all jockeying for advantage. Russia recently tested another Earth-launched anti-satellite missile, US ...
The Boko Haram Islamist extremist group’s bloody campaign across West Africa turned a dark corner over the weekend. More than 300 Nigerian schoolboys remain missing after Boko Haram militants stormed their village on Friday night. According to ...
A foreign government has struck the US Treasury and Commerce Departments, stealing data and infiltrating employees' emails, in what experts are calling the most sweeping and technologically advanced cyberattack against the country in years. The ...
The common conclusion among America’s military officials and experts is that the US has decidedly entered a new era of great power competition. As the predominant line of thinking goes: The counterinsurgency conflicts that defined the post-9/11 ...
Iraq celebrated its third “Victory Day” on Thursday, commemorating the December 2017 territorial defeat of ISIS at the combined hands of the Iraqi military and Kurdish peshmerga forces, supported from the air by a US-led coalition of some 77 ...
