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A family in Elk Grove, California, got a huge surprise on Wednesday when a loved one who serves in the military returned home for Christmas.

Japan’s government on Monday approved a record defense budget of 5.34 trillion yen ($51.6 billion) for 2021 as part of an effort to counter “security challenges posed by China,” Japanese newspaper the Mainichi reported on December 21.

Franklin Graham said he is grateful for the last four years, and what President Donald Trump has done for Americans who stand for life and freedom.

The U.S. military reportedly deployed two B-52H bombers to the Middle East on Thursday as part of an effort to deter Iran from potential attacks in the region, a senior U.S. military official told Voice of America (VOA).

Iran is sending Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro’s socialist regime weapons and troops, a top U.S. military official told the Wall Street Journal Wednesday.

The National Assembly of South Korea passed a law Tuesday that allows pop stars to defer mandatory military service up to age 30 if the nation’s culture minister deems them “significant contributors to the elevation of national reputation,” according to the news agency Yonhap.

During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, House Armed Services Committee Vice Chairman Rep. Anthony Brown (D-MD) discussed the military and stated that “the bond of trust and respect between our military and the citizens they defend is frayed when our military

Nearly all lawmakers at a House hearing on Friday expressed opposition to President Trump’s troop drawdown in Afghanistan.

Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Adam Smith (D-WA) on Tuesday applauded President Donald Trump’s decision to reduce U.S. troops in Afghanistan from approximately 4,500 down to 2,500 by January 15.

Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller announced a U.S. troop withdrawal down to 2,500 in Afghanistan and Iraq, consistent with President Trump’s promises to bring U.S. troops home and in furtherance of his goal to end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Trump can cement his legacy as the president who ended America’s longest war, said his nominee for Ambassador to Afghanistan, William Ruger.

President Donald Trump now has a team in place at the Pentagon that can execute a drawdown from Afghanistan.

Matt Naylor, president and CEO of the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, joined Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Jerome Hudson to discuss his museum’s Memorial Day events, which included a parachuting event featuring a 92-year-old veteran.

A Russian conscript soldier killed three fellow servicemen at a military base near the city of Voronezh on Monday after attacking them with an axe and a handgun, Russian authorities said.

South Korea is considering allowing its male pop superstars to defer mandatory military service in light of the unprecedented international fame of boy band Bangtan Sonyeondan (BTS), the military revealed on Tuesday.

The Trump campaign released an ad on Monday, contrasting the national security records of former Vice President Joe Biden with President Donald Trump’s.

Members of the mainstream media implied President Trump blamed Gold Star families for catching the coronavirus.

Progressive veterans group VoteVets has stayed silent on Army Reserve Lt. Col. Cal Cunningham, a candidate it has endorsed for the U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina, after revelations last week he engaged in at least one extramarital affair.

A lawyer and Army veteran said on Cunningham’s affair that adultery is banned by the military to guard against being compromised by blackmail.

Harris relied on a report about Russian bounties the Pentagon has said is uncorroborated to claim President Trump does not care about troops.

Biden claimed during the first presidential debate that Gen. Mark Milley said that President Trump wants to divide people, not unite them.

Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed during the first presidential debate that he did not call members of the military “stupid bastards.”

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday evening unanimously passed a bipartisan bill to allow for the posthumous awarding of the Medal of Honor to Army Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe for sacrificing his life in 2005 to save his fellow soldiers from a burning vehicle in Iraq.

A group of about a dozen military veterans and civilians live-streamed themselves doing 484 push-ups to raise awareness for suicide.

The Chinese communist People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force released a video this weekend advertising the power of the nation’s H-6K bomber aircraft by bombing what appeared to be a U.S. military base on Guam.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced the “I Am Vanessa Guillén Act” to reform the way the military handles sexual harassment cases.

Nearly 800 military family members have signed an open letter in support of Trump, amid attacks on his patriotism and care for the military.

A recent report from the Washington Post claims that a Chinese data firm has been collecting the “digital crumbs” of data of prominent Americans and military members for some time. The company gathered data on 2 million people including 50,000 Americans with the “stated purpose of providing intelligence to Chinese military, government and commercial clients.”

The Atlantic magazine has published more anti-President Donald Trump content, this time an author at the left-wing publication wrote the Nobel Peace Prize should be eliminated because Trump’s nomination has tarnished the award.

Biden said in an interview Thursday that he would keep an enduring U.S. troop presence in the Middle East if elected president.

A new poll shows that President Donald Trump is more popular among military households than Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden.

Former Vice President Joe Biden tried to use military deaths from coronavirus to bash his rival, President Donald Trump, but botched the numbers badly.

The media’s latest fusillade — that Trump disparaged fallen troops — is believed exclusively by people who already detest Trump, but by no one else.

The Atlantic, whose editor in chief recently published a hit piece on Trump, has only endorsed three candidates since its founding in 1857.

President Donald Trump will withdraw 2,200 American troops from Iraq in September, Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the top U.S. commander of Central Command, said on Wednesday.

Alex Marlow noted how The Atlantic’s claims imply that John Kelly, a Gold Star father, was silent as Donald Trump denigrated his fallen son.