President Donald Trump paid his respects on March 18 at a Delaware military base where the remains of six U.S. service members killed in the crash of a refueling aircraft were returned to their families.
The Pentagon has asked the White House to approve a more than $200 billion request to Congress to fund the war in Iran, according to a senior administration official, in an enormous new ask that is almost certain to run into resistance from lawmakers opposed to the conflict.
President Trump hasn't made up his mind yet on whether he wants to send American forces into Iran and seize the country's nuclear material, which would be a very dangerous operation, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
China is a longstanding friend of Iran that has helped sustain the Islamic Republic through decades of sanctions and international isolation. Since the U.S. and Israeli militaries began striking Iran late last month, Beijing has offered Tehran limited public support, condemning the killing of the Iranian leadership while calling on all sides to stop fighting. But its longstanding support for Iran could grow increasingly critical as the war continues.
The People’s Republic of China is unlikely to invade Taiwan by the end of 2027, U.S. intelligence officials claim in a new report. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released this year’s Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community on March 18, which found that Beijing would rather not resort to belligerence to bring the island under its control.
Russia’s efforts to assert its power in the Arctic are being undermined by the Ukraine war, according to U.S. intelligence. “While Russia has enhanced its ability to operate in the Arctic by focusing on combat readiness and using dual-use technologies and facilities for defense, its war with Ukraine has limited its ability to fully achieve its Arctic ambitions,” according to the 2026 Annual Threat Assessment by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released March 18.
As part of a broader effort across the Pentagon to improve procurement, the Space Force has finalized the nine specific mission areas that will guide its new organizations known as portfolio acquisition executives, according to the service.
The Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer said he’s “pretty confident” that the military can replace Anthropic’s Claude before President Donald Trump’s six-month deadline, arguing that the four “frontier” AI models were proving largely interchangeable.
President Donald Trump’s hype campaign for the Iran war has demolished decades of presidential decorum around wartime messaging—and is mortifying former defense officials and members of Congress. The White House is loving it.
Senate Republicans on March 18 defeated a Democratic-sponsored motion to advance a war powers resolution to halt President Trump’s military strikes against Iran. ... The Senate voted 47-53 against discharging the resolution to rein in Trump’s authority from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine will face a deficit of missiles it is using to fight Russia due to the war in the Middle East. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, the Ukrainian president said Russia's Vladimir Putin wanted a "long war" between the U.S., Israel, and Iran because it would weaken Kyiv, with U.S. resources being directed elsewhere.
Military families shipping their household goods and cars to new assignments are seeing delays brought on by the ongoing U.S. war with Iran, Pentagon officials say. A March 10 memo issued by the Defense Department’s Personal Property Activity, or PPA, warned that “the operation in the Middle East is causing severe, widespread, and rapidly evolving disruptions to air and sea shipments. Airport closures, suspensions of port operations, the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz and significant security risks are preventing vessel and airline ability to safely transit the area.”
