On the entrenched battlefield of eastern Ukraine, both the Ukrainians and their Russian enemies have jury-rigged and weaponized off-the-shelf small drones to create cheap strike platforms capable of dropping grenades and homemade antipersonnel ...
KYIV, Ukraine — It’s a cold, cold war. With US Air Force B-1B bombers heading to Norway, a squadron of Russian Navy MiG-31BM "Foxhound" supersonic interceptors has deployed to a remote Arctic air base to assume "combat" alert duties. According to ...
Several times each year America’s premier combat pilots converge on Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada for an air war exercise called Red Flag. The storied proving ground for Air Force fighter pilots, Red Flag has become a bellwether for the war of ...
President Joe Biden outlined his foreign policy priorities during a Thursday speech at the State Department, singling out China as America’s “most serious competitor.” Biden pledged that his administration would “confront China’s economic abuses; ...
A pair of ISIS suicide bombings in the predominately Shiite Bab al-Sharqi neighborhood in Baghdad on Jan. 21 spawned a new pro-Iran extremist group called Alwiya Waad al Haq — the "Righteous Promise Brigades." Two days later, Saudi Arabian air ...
Armed rebels have encircled Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, spurring an “apocalyptic” situation, the country’s former prime minister said. "I cannot leave Bangui without a heavily armed army escort," Martin Ziguélé, the ...
KYIV, Ukraine — US and Russian military forces are constantly jostling for advantage in the Arctic. This week, the US Air Force made clear that it's not willing to cede any ground in this increasingly contested region. Marking the Air Force's ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Last week the US Navy sent three ships, including two destroyers, into the Black Sea to conduct military exercises alongside NATO allies and Ukrainian naval forces. True to form, Moscow flexed its military muscles, signaling the ...
A cheating scandal involving some 249 cadets has rocked the US Air Force Academy, spurring the superintendent to order a review of the 66-year-old institution’s honor system. In a Friday press release, academy officials said those cadets had ...
The war in Ukraine has entered its eighth calendar year. Today, tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops remain hunkered down in trenches and ad hoc forts along a 250-mile-long front line in the country’s embattled southeastern Donbas region. The ...
KYIV, Ukraine — I walk alone on a gray winter day. The bare branches bend in the cold wind. Beside the path through Kyiv's Babyn Yar memorial park, melted snow has turned the earth to black mud. I pass an old woman sitting on a bench. She has two ...
This week a French court is hearing a lawsuit from a 78-year-old French Vietnamese woman who has sued the manufacturers of Agent Orange, a chemical defoliant used by the US armed forces during the Vietnam War. Born in 1942 in what was then known ...
With America and Russia locked in great power competition, there’s no love lost between Washington and Moscow these days. Yet, high above the Earth’s surface, orbiting around the planet at some 17,100 miles per hour in the International Space ...
A Navy SEAL convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the killing of an Army Special Forces soldier was sentenced to 10 years in prison over the weekend. Formerly a member of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, commonly known as SEAL Team ...
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 ...
