Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Thursday sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees again threatening to recommend a veto of the Fiscal 2017 National Defense Authorization Act unless several changes are made. Carter has...

Some of the 560 new troops headed to Iraq will rebuild the airfield at the newly retaken town of Qayyarah so US and Iraqi aircraft can use it as a staging point for the fight on Mosul. Defense Secretary Ash...

ISIS on Thursday said a coalition airstrike on July 10 killed a leader the Pentagon had said was killed in a March strike. The leader, so called “minister of war” Abu Umar al-Shishani, was first reportedly killed in a March...

Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday visited Moscow to discuss closer cooperation between the US and Russia in the fight against ISIS. Kerry is reportedly meeting with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to...

With Russia’s and China’s demonstrated abilities to attack space assets, “the US dominance in space is over,” and the nation “must be prepared to fight a limited war in space and do it better than its adversaries,” strategic scholar Elbridge...

The requested quadrupling of European Reassurance Initiative funding will allow the US presence to change its role from assurance to deterrence, USAF Maj. Gen. David Allvin, the director of strategy and policy for US European Command, told lawmakers Wednesday. “The...

USAF C-17s and C-130s and their crews are teaming up with soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division to practice large-formation airdrops this week as part of Battalion Mass Tactical Week at Fort Bragg, N.C. Three C-17s and three C-130s along...

More than 25 airmen from the 107th Civil Engineer Squadron at Niagara Falls ARS, N.Y., recently returned from a two-week deployment to Vau Dejes, Albania, where they helped renovate a medical clinic and school from June 18 to July 2,...

The commander of the US Southern Command questioned the value of some of Congress’ proposed changes to the Goldwater-Nichols defense reform law, particularly the proposal that would merge his command with US Northern Command and create joint task forces instead...

In shaping its strategic framework for Latin America and the Caribbean, US Southern Command must understand that “there is no longer any such thing as a regional challenge,” its commander, Adm. Kurt Tidd, said. Whether it is dealing with the...