While speaking to reporters on Tuesday, President Trump stated that until there is “a wall and proper security, we’re going to be guarding our border with the military.” Trump said, “I’ve been speaking with General Mattis. We’re going to be
The Taliban is “increasingly attacking” U.S.-NATO troops and their Afghan counterparts with high-tech weapons like night vision goggles and lasers that were either stolen from the international coalition and local forces or purchased on the black market, the New York Times (NYT) has learned.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has avoided taking a visible role in the Trump administration since it took office last year, avoiding cameras and cable news shows.
Several reporters in Tuesday’s White House press briefing failed to get a detailed answer out of press secretary Sarah Sanders on whether President Trump is pursuing using defense department omnibus funds to build the promised southern border wall.
A Pentagon survey shows fewer than 25 servicemembers have used former President Barack Obama’s transgender rules to request free cosmetic genital surgery, even though progressive activists have argued for several years that 14,000 people in the military want to be treated as members of the other sex.
The president described the 2,232-page bill as “ridiculous” but said he felt the need to sign it because of his duty to protect the country.
The United States Army is developing compact weapons platforms “optimized for fighting in dense urban terrain.”
“Space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air, and sea,” Trump said. “We may even have a Space Force … we have the Air Force, we’ll have the Space Force.”
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has begun purging high-rankings members of his military who have expressed their opposition to his failed socialist regime.
China revealed on Monday that it will raise its military budget by $175 billion for the 2018 fiscal year, an 8.1 increase that is the largest military spending hike in three years. According to Premier Li Keqiang, the additional funding will “advance all aspects of military training and war preparedness, and firmly and resolvedly safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests.”
The Pentagon has restarted military recruitment of people who say they want to switch sexes, despite orders from President Donald Trump to exclude transgender individuals from military service. Officials announced Monday, February 26, that they had signed a recruitment contract on February
Pentagon chief James Mattis is urging President Donald Trump to embrace the revolutionary political claim that every person’s legal sex is determined by their feelings of “gender identity,” not by their biology, according to the Washington Post.
A Southern California city councilman and teacher who called members of the military “dumbshits” refused to step down Tuesday after his fellow council members condemned him.
Venezuela’s leading state prosecutor Tarek William Saab has claimed that the neighboring country of Colombia is planning a “military invasion” as the country’s humanitarian and political crisis continues to worsen.
The U.S. military has introduced acupuncture as a pain relief treatment for troops in an effort to fight opioid abuse, according to a report.
The Pentagon is requesting $686.1 billion for fiscal year 2019 — $597.1 billion for its base budget, and $89 billion for its war-funding budget some of which will pay for base budget requirements.
President Donald Trump quickly signed the Congressional two-year spending deal on Friday, just hours after it passed the House of Representatives in an early morning vote.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis described continuing resolutions, government shutdowns, and Congress’s failure to pass a budget as “debilitating” and “very damaging,” listing the specific fallout from not funding the 2018 National Defense Strategy.
“He has asked the Department of Defense to explore a celebration at which all Americans can show their appreciation,” Sarah Sanders said in a statement to reporters.
President Donald Trump is poised next month to request a boost in military spending for 2019, according to a recent report by the Washington Post.
Fitness tracking app Strava accidentally revealed the location of a secret U.S. Army base due to the program’s GPS capabilities tracking the movement of soldiers using the app.
President Donald Trump continued to challenge Democrats for shutting down the government over amnesty demands for illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children.
The Pentagon said Sunday that troops serving overseas can now watch two channels during the shutdown — a news channel and a sports channel.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Friday morning that a government shutdown that it would have a “terrible impact” on military operations.
House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday blasted Democrats for refusing to pass a 2018 government spending bill that does not include a DACA fix.
Thursday on his nationally syndicated radio program, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh advised President Donald Trump to maintain that congressional Democrats attempting to force a government shutdown were putting 800,000 illegal immigrants ahead other government functions, including the well-being of the
President Trump warned Thursday that if the government shuts down tomorrow at midnight, it will harm the military.
Troops will not receive a paycheck this Friday if Congress fails to pass a budget or another short-term spending measure by then, according to the Pentagon.
President Donald Trump warned Americans that Congressional Democrats were preparing to shut down the government over amnesty for illegal immigrants.
The question of transgender troops is not about equality at all. It is about culture — whether the armed forces should be used to convince the rest of society that “sex and gender are different.”
The recent federal court order prohibiting the Pentagon from denying prospective recruits on the basis of transgenderism was an act of “judicial overreach” that ignored the legitimate questions President Trump understood barred transgender troops, said Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney.
At a remote military base in Jordan earlier this month, U.S. Marines were abuzz with excitement — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was in town.
Lawrence Hurley and Idrees Ali reports for Reuters that Federal Courts ordered that transgendered people will be allowed to enlist in the military for the first time starting Monday.
Barack Obama will go down in history as one of the worst, if not the worst president in U.S. history. His “leadership” left the world in chaos, our economy in shambles, national debt approaching $20 trillion, and our nation divided as never before in a profound crisis of identity and confidence.
President Trump praised the men and women of the American armed forces who are overseas during the Christmas season, expressing that “every American heart is thankful” for their service to the nation.
U.S. military forces reportedly began training this month for a mission involving a ground invasion of North Korea, with the objective of deactivating all their nuclear weapons.
First Lady Melania Trump glowed in a vibrant pop-of-color for her visit with children of military families at a “Toys for Tots” event at the Joint Base Acostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump signed a military spending bill on Tuesday, promising a “strong military” with the best equipment during his presidency.
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed a senior leader of Chinese Communist Party Central Military Commission in Moscow Thursday to discuss the expansion of joint war games and military cooperation around the world.
Wives of Australia’s soldiers were horrified by a recent article posted to the country’s defense forces website proposing that prostitutes be sent to comfort Aussie troops who have been deployed overseas.
