Defending the US homeland from the threat of ballistic missiles is among the American military’s top priorities in the great power competition era. Both China and Russia wield arsenals of intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of striking ...
Sunday marked the fifth day of heavy fighting between militants affiliated with the Islamic State group, or ISIS, and government forces in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado, underscoring a rapidly worsening security situation less than ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin is always accompanied by a military aide carrying a briefcase that contains the required communications equipment and authorization codes to launch Russia’s nuclear weapons arsenal within ...
The Department of Health and Human Services has asked the Department of Defense to review the possibility of housing unaccompanied migrant children at two military bases in Texas, underscoring a mounting crisis at the US-Mexico border that has left ...
The war against ISIS may no longer top the headlines, but it’s far from over. The US-led, multinational airpower coalition against ISIS carried out at least 151 airstrikes in Iraq over the past two weeks, marking the most significant bombing ...
About a dozen Army Special Forces soldiers have deployed to Mozambique to help train the country’s Marines to combat an ongoing and brutal ISIS insurgency. The mission underscores the growing importance of Africa for America’s global fight against ...
Eighteen years ago today, the US invaded Iraq to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein. A generation later, US military personnel remain in the country, actively participating in ongoing military operations to root out remnants of the ISIS terrorist ...
Is this what victory looks like? Less than three months prior to the May 1 deadline for all US troops to leave Afghanistan, US warplanes conducted multiple airstrikes this week against Taliban forces massing to attack Afghan government troops in ...
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say “These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.” After I left the military in 2011, I wandered for months, crisscrossing India and Nepal. I studied Buddhism in the misty mountain village of ...
When the Air Force tells its pilots to “aim high,” they sure as heck mean it. In a bid to offset its persistent pilot retention woes, the Air Force is reportedly offering its aviators a bonus of up to $420,000 to stay in uniform. The payments are ...
In 2020, some 65 journalists in 16 countries were killed by assassinations, bombings, or while caught in the crossfire while covering conflicts, the International Federation of Journalists found in a report released March 11. That number represents a ...
KYIV, Ukraine — To reach the Ukrainian fighting positions outside the village of Novomykhailivka, you must travel along a snow-covered road that precariously weaves through a minefield. Along the road, shrapnel has carved concrete power line poles ...
Space is supposed to be the last bastion of untrammeled cooperation between the US and Russia. That stellar relationship got a little stress test this week after Russia booted one of its cosmonauts from an upcoming spaceflight to the International ...
With US forces gone and American airstrikes on pause, a wave of terrorist violence has swept Somalia, killing dozens of civilians. A contingent of some 700 US military personnel departed Somalia in the final days of the Trump administration. ...
During a speech at the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul in July 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called on his terrorist acolytes to continue the so-called ISIS caliphate’s campaign of nihilistic violence all the way to the conquest of Rome. “You will ...
Cat lovers around the world, meet your new hero: a 23-year-old Thai navy sailor named Thatsaphon Saii. Demonstrating the sort of “grace under pressure” that would have earned him a slow tip of the rum glass and a nod of approval from Ernest ...
KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian Su-27 "Flanker" fighter scrambled to intercept a pair of US Air Force B-1B Lancer supersonic bombers on a training mission over the Baltic Sea on Wednesday, underscoring Moscow’s discontent with a more assertive American ...
With both China and Russia increasing their so-called “malign” influence in North Africa, NATO’s maritime forces have refocused their attentions on the Mediterranean Sea. To that end, NATO recently kicked off an anti-submarine warfare and ...
A barrage of some 10 rockets hit an Iraqi air base housing US troops on Wednesday morning, US officials said. It was the first attack of its kind since a Feb. 25 US airstrike on Iran-backed militants on the Iraq-Syria border. As of this article’s ...
KYIV, Ukraine — The Pentagon announced a $125 million aid package for Ukraine on Monday, including a commitment to continue lethal weapons deliveries to enable the embattled post-Soviet country “to more effectively defend itself against Russian ...
The Greek tragedian Aeschylus famously wrote: “In war, truth is the first casualty.” Well, in this new era of so-called “hybrid” or “gray zone” warfare, truth is not only a casualty of war — it has also become the weapon of choice for some of ...
US airstrikes targeted Iranian-backed militias in Syria on Thursday, marking a retaliatory escalation following a series of rocket potshots by pro-Iranian groups at bases in Iraq housing American military personnel. The strikes mark the first ...
KYIV, Ukraine — With US Air Force B-1B supersonic bombers in Norway for combat exercises, America’s top general in Europe has warned about the threat posed by Russia to the US and its Western allies — a threat spanning from the Arctic to the Black ...
What a difference a few months make. The US Navy expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Carson City pulled into Port Sudan on Wednesday, marking the first port visit by a US Navy ship after Washington officially rescinded Sudan’s status as a state ...
Just in time for the great-power competition era, the US Air Force has acquired a light attack aircraft perfectly suited for providing close air support in combat against low-tech insurgencies. The US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center ...
The F-35A Lightning II is the Air Force’s newest, fifth-generation stealth fighter. But there’s nothing stealth about the deterrent message to Russia intended by the permanent basing of an F-35A squadron on British soil. Set to be the first US Air ...
As the saying goes: “Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.” Well, for the 30 Taliban militants who died during a bomb-making workshop in Afghanistan on Saturday, the proverbial bear got the best of them. The Afghan National ...
China’s no-holds-barred military modernization program has included some attention-grabbing new technologies seemingly drawn from the recesses of science fiction. In addition to the development of artificial intelligence technology, experiments in ...
A barrage of rockets struck an Iraqi air base in the city of Erbil on Monday, killing a civilian contractor working for the US-led coalition combating ISIS. An American service member and several American civilian contractors were also injured in the ...
No fewer than 44 American citizens and permanent residents are currently held hostage or wrongfully detained in 11 countries, the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation announced this week. Not included within that number are some 28 Americans who have ...
