A group of 55 Democratic lawmakers from the House and the Senate released a letter Jan. 26, urging President Joe Biden to declare a “no first use” policy for nuclear arms and to roll back the U.S.’s “reliance on nuclear weapons” in the Pentagon’s forthcoming ...
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The fiscal year 2022 budget will enter its fifth month under a continuing resolution in February, the product of a record-setting latest ever budget release by the Biden administration in May 2021. Meanwhile, the president’s fiscal year 2023 budget request is unlikely to meet a ...
USAF is ill-prepared to absorb combat losses in a peer fight.
A collection of quotes on air power and national security issues.
Combatting sexual assault and harassment in the ranks presents a "huge problem" for the National Guard, a top lawmaker on the House Armed Services Committee warned Jan. 19. Questioning National Guard Bureau Chief Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson during a military personnel subcommittee hearing on the ...
In 2014, Dr. Celeste Wallander was the senior director for Russia and Central Asia at the National Security Council, under President Barack Obama, when Russia launched its invasion of the Crimean Peninsula, seizing the territory from Ukraine. Now, Wallander has been nominated to be assistant ...
John Plumb called space traffic management “absolutely essential” and said he supported having a civil agency take over the mission from the Space Force. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing to become the first assistant secretary of defense for space ...
Billions of dollars are on the line if Congress cannot pass a defense appropriations bill in the coming month and instead decides to fund the Defense Department through a continuing resolution for the rest of fiscal 2022, service chiefs and top Pentagon officials warned a ...
More than 9,000 households in Hawaii have been affected by a jet fuel spill near Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam that contaminated drinking water in November. The Navy anticipates the issue at the Red Hill Fuel Bulk Fuel Storage Facility won’t be resolved for some families ...
