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The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) did not assign anyone to provide counterintelligence (CI) support to protect against threats to America’s defense critical infrastructure such as “chemical facilities and nuclear power systems,” the Pentagon’s office of the inspector general (OIG) recently reported.

The View’s Meghan McCain on Wednesday blasted President Donald Trump’s transgender military ban, describing it as “an unfair, un-American, and dangerous policy.”

The Air Force said on Monday that it has not yet finalized a list of potential bases where Space Command will be located.

Six retired U.S. defense officials issued a statement on Wednesday warning that European and Asian partners could put American military operations at risk if they use Chinese technology in their 5G networks.

West Virginia State Police on Wednesday morning shut down Interstate 68 for several hours near the Maryland border after a man allegedly threatened to assassinate President Donald Trump and bomb the Pentagon, according to reports. 

“He stated strongly that he is totally committed to the U.S. Military, not the Chinese Military,” Trump wrote. “Also discussed political fairness and various things that Google can do for our Country.”

The Pentagon announced Monday evening that Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan authorized $1 billion for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) for building the border wall pursuant to the president’s emergency declaration last month.

Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan delivered a sobering statistic on Wednesday at a think-tank in Washington: Last year, China put 34 rockets into orbit — more than double the 17 that the U.S. put into orbit the same year.

A group of Iraqi Yazidis rallied outside the White House over the weekend to urge U.S. President Donald Tump’s administration to help them rescue the estimated 3,000 Yazidis who remain missing or in Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) captivity and to protect their homeland in Iraq.

The U.S. military is planning to flight test two types of missiles banned by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) after the United States and Russia withdraw from the pact in August, Pentagon officials revealed this week.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Thursday after he testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee he is not worried by a progressive watchdog group’s request that the Pentagon inspector general investigate whether he has acted unethically to help his former employer Boeing during his time at the Defense Department.

The Pentagon unveiled a $750 billion budget request for 2020, that prioritizes the threats from China and Russia.

The U.S. must accelerate its investments in the vital war-fighting domain of artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent China from further eroding America’s technological edge, a top Pentagon general told Breitbart News this week.

The Pentagon is moving forward on its new transgender policy, after a court lifted an injunction on the policy last week.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and other supporters of the transgender ideology are using the U.S. military’s battlefield sacrifices to hide a dramatic political agenda from politicians and voters.

Artificial intelligence (AI) fielded by the United States military is “light years away” from “fully autonomous weapons,” but the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) needs to start thinking about the policy implications of a potential Skynet scenario, a top U.S. general told lawmakers on Tuesday.

Troops will see a pay raise of 3.1 percent in January under President Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget request.

Jeff Bezos looks a lot like Ernst Blofeld, the fictional villain in several of the early James Bond movies. Is the resemblance just a coincidence? You decide.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s Pentagon security clearance is currently under review by the Department of Defense following the CEO’s appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast where he drank whiskey and smoked marijuana.

The ongoing deteriorating security conditions on the ground in Afghanistan do not warrant the proposed withdrawal of American troops,  the top commander charged with overseeing U.S. military activity in South Asia declared on Thursday.

A Pentagon official championed President Donald Trump’s requirement that the sex of transgender soldiers be decided by their biology, not by their claimed “gender identity.”

Russia’s weekly news show Vesti Nedeli focused Sunday on presenting its viewers with a map of the United States that identified targets Russia would attack with ostensibly unstoppable hypersonic missiles in the event of a conflict with the United States. The target list included the Pentagon and the presidential retreat at Camp David.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, amid ongoing peace negotiations with the Afghan Taliban, quietly ended an airstrike campaign against Taliban opium and heroin drug labs after failing to curtail the terrorist organization’s multi-million dollar trade, the Pentagon’s inspector general (IG) revealed this week.

Belgian Defense Minister Didier Reynders on Thursday denied a Washington Post report that U.S. allies have “rejected” a “Trump administration request” for them to leave troops in Syria as America withdraws its forces.

Shanahan had a rocky meeting with U.S. senators at a security conference in Munich, Germany, that could jeopardize his chance to become permanent defense secretary.

Sen. Jim Inhofe said Saturday he does not oppose Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan becoming the next defense secretary. 

WASHINGTON, DC — “Serious ethical” and “moral failings” by some members of the U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) are impacting “large scale missions” by eroding the morale and confidence of America’s allies, a top Pentagon official declared on Thursday.

The Pentagon’s Inspector General recently announced plans to begin a review of the Air Force’s certification of the SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket.

The Pentagon is racing to build a defense against a growing hypersonic missile threat from China and Russia.

American troops are helping African countries combat the “environmental degradation” allegedly stoking violence and fueling overall political, economic, and social unrest on the continent, a top U.S. general noted in an annual assessment of United States military activities in Africa.

A Baghdad-sanctioned umbrella organization of an estimated 50 mainly Shiite militias, including some backed by Iran, engaged in illicit activities in recent months that undermine security and stability in Iraq, the office of the inspector general (OIG) at the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) stressed this week.

The Pentagon is at risk of mismanaging yet another multi-billion project in Afghanistan — a modernization program intended to equip the Afghan Air Forces (AAF) with 159 state-of-the-art Black Hawk helicopters as part of efforts to address capability gaps, a U.S. watchdog agency reported Tuesday.

Between 300 and 550 Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadis remain active in the Philippines, a testament to the lingering threat posed by the jihadi group despite efforts by U.S.-backed local forces.

There are three migrant caravans headed to the United States’ southern border with Mexico, according to top Pentagon official John Rood.

The new version of the U.S. missile defense strategy released by the Pentagon and introduced by President Donald Trump on Thursday states that North Korea remains an “extraordinary threat” along with Iran, Russia, and China.

An attendee at President Donald Trump’s speech in the Pentagon on Thursday began waving what looked like a red Make America Great Again hat when the president walked onstage, in an apparent show of support for the president.