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Lawmakers are trying to compromise on a fiscal 2020 defense policy bill as a new, slimmed-down version offers a fallback option. Architect of the Capitol photo via Twitter. A slimmed-down version of the fiscal 2020 defense policy bill recently introduced...
DOD officials on Oct. 30 provided more information about the Oct. 26 raid that led to the death of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, including this photo of the compound before the raid. DOD photo. The top US...
An aircrew from the 165th Airlift Squadron flies over the skies of Normandy, France, aboard a Kentucky Air National Guard C-130 on June 4, 2019. Air National Guard photo by Phil Speck. Air Mobility Command is expanding how it trains...
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley addresses reporters at an Oct. 28, 2019, press conference at the Pentagon. DVIDS screenshot. US aircraft fired a heavy onslaught of ordnance from the air, including multiple AGM-158B Joint...
President Donald Trump is joined by Vice President Mike Pence, National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, left; Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, right, Oct. 26, 2019, at the White House,...
Participants conduct simulated space operations during a US Strategic Command-led space situational awareness tabletop exercise in 2016. STRATCOM is working with others in the military to decide which organization should be in charge of synchronizing non-kinetic effects, like those in...
Vice Adm. Chas Richard, the Navy's submarine forces commander who is nominated to lead US Strategic Command, speaks to the crew of USS John Warner (SSN 785) during an all-hands call Aug. 9, 2018. Navy photo by Spc. 1st Class...