The Pentagon is deploying to Turkey up to a dozen F-15Cs, specializing in air-to-air combat, allegedly to combat the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), which has no aerial fighters.
WASHINGTON D.C.—The Pentagon has denied claims by Vladimir Putin’s defense ministry that the Russian air force held an air space cooperation exercise with its U.S. counterpart in Syria, aimed at staving off dangerous encounters between their warplanes.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An estimated 75 percent of the all U.S. military deaths and about 90 percent of the injuries linked to the ongoing war in Afghanistan have occurred under President Obama’s watch, according to a Breitbart News tally.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) refuses to explicitly say whether or not American military troops are planning to assist and protect U.S.-armed and trained Syrian rebels who come under attack by Russia.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has officially ordered senior Department of Defense (DOD) officials to begin communicating with Russia on matters related to the Syrian conflict in an effort to avoid miscalculations and misjudgments, according to the Pentagon.
On September 23, a scrapyard worker at Tucson Iron & Metal was killed after the torch he was using caused a 500-pound bomb to detonate.
The regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has begun using new weapons provided by Russia, Reuters learned from an unnamed Syrian military source.
The FBI is investigating an Ohio State University professor who disappeared and may have given defense secrets to the Chinese government.
A veteran who previously spoke to Breitbart News about being stonewalled by the Department of Defense on his Freedom of Information Act requests has now filed a lawsuit to get inform
When President Obama declared earlier this year that “climate change” represents “an immediate risk to our national security” he was absolutely right: his administration’s crazed faith that renewable energy represents a solution to “climate change” is severely impacting the defensive capabilities of the US military.
WASHINGTON D.C.—The United States may take additional measures to ensure the protection of its lightly-equipped peacekeeping force in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, said a Pentagon spokesperson.
As the Hillary Clinton email scandal turns into a mushroom cloud, with new names popping into the chain of custody for her electronic communications every day, one of the lingering questions is whether any of these people were actually cleared to handle the sensitive, classified, and Top Secret information Clinton recklessly exposed.
The nearly one-year-old U.S. military campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria has already cost American taxpayers more than $3 billion, according to the Pentagon.
Speaking on Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine” regarding the shooting in Chattanooga, TN, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) said that the United States needs a national strategy to “deal with the home-grown terrorist threat.”
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush told Yahoo News that he supports the Obama administration’s move to allow transgender individuals to openly serve in the U.S. military.
On July 16, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base—Ohio’s largest military base—will be “holding a lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender run” to celebrate diversity.
The U.S. military is weighing whether it will conduct or fund gender transition surgery and treatment once the ban on open service by transgender people is rescinded.
The U.S. government has spent more than $1 billion in American taxpayer funds on programs to develop the rule of law in Afghanistan, including efforts to improve a judicial system that incorporates Islamic Sharia law, reports a watchdog agency appointed by Congress.
The remains of 36 U.S. Marine heroes of a bloody World War II battle were found on an isolated island in the Pacific more than 70 years after they died, various news outlets report.
The Pentagon is not “specifically” considering lifting the policy barring transgender people from serving openly in the military, said a Department of Defense (DoD) spokesman.
The United States, within the last two years, has sold nearly $1.5 billion in military equipment to Mexico, including millions of bullets, fleets of Black Hawk helicopters, and thousands of Humvees, reports Stars and Stripes.
Pfc. Monterrious T. Daniel, a 19-year-old Fort Carson soldier, died in a non-combat related incident in Camp Buehring, Kuwait, while supporting the U.S.-led mission against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria, according to the Pentagon.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary Ashton Carter said he is “incredibly optimistic” about the United States’s position in the world.
The Obama administration, while the Senate debates halting transfers out of the Guantanamo Bay detention center and keeping the prison operable indefinitely, is planning to free up to 10 detainees, possibly in June, Defense One has learned.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A Department of Defense (DoD) lab sent out live samples of anthrax to 51 other laboratories in 17 U.S. states, Washington D.C., Australia, South Korea, and Canada, Pentagon officials told reporters on Wednesday.
The Pentagon had to admit, Wednesday, that it had accidentally sent live anthrax samples to nearly a dozen labs across the country and at least one overseas. They are now working with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to contain the shipments.
A veteran has sought information about Fort McClellan’s chemical contamination from the Department of Defense since last year, but his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request has gone unanswered.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Pentagon, amid the chaos plaguing Yemen, is unable to recover more than half a billion dollars worth of weapons, equipment, and other U.S. taxpayer-funded security assistance provided to the impoverished Arab country, according to a U.S. defense official.
“Some of President Obama’s email correspondence was swept up by Russian hackers last year in a breach of the White House’s unclassified computer system that was far more intrusive and worrisome than has been publicly acknowledged,” The New York Times reported over the weekend, based on comments from “senior American officials briefed on the investigation.”
The Department of Defense (DoD) is making a concerted effort to reduce smoking among its members, and the Defense Advisory Committee will propose two options to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter: raise the price of tobacco on military bases and create more tobacco-free zones on the bases.
In a sharply-worded memo, Navy Chaplain Wesley Modder’s commander denied his request for a “religious accommodation” in a disciplinary process that has relieved him of his command and could kick him out of the Navy forever. Modder stands accused of homophobia and insensitivity–though, in the official documents, the term is “substandard performance”–which could trump all the accolades he has received in almost 20 years of military service and throw his professional life into ruin.
WASHINGTON — A change in policy issued by the Army Friday evening will make it harder to dismiss transgender soldiers, according to advocate groups.
New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter indicated that he is open to transgender people serving in the U.S. military as long as they can do what is required of them.
Army Sgt. Jordan Vaughn (Ret.), who served in the same company as Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and participated in the search for Bergdahl, said that “it really seems like they’re [the Army] dragging their feet” on the investigation into Bergdahl’s actions on
A new study from the Pew Research Center examined Americans’ views on government agencies, revealing that citizens are more favorable toward the Department of Defense and NASA than they are toward the IRS or President Obama.
