President Trump said on Jan. 7 that he expected the United States would be running Venezuela and extracting oil from its huge reserves for years, and insisted that the interim government of the country — all former loyalists to the now-imprisoned Nicolás Maduro — is “giving us everything that we feel is necessary.”
The Senate on Jan. 8 voted to advance legislation that would force President Donald Trump to seek congressional approval before taking any new military action in Venezuela, a stunning rebuke for the White House in the first big test of GOP unity since the U.S. capture of President Nicolás Maduro.
AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies launched “America 250: The Air & Space Power Story,” a new short-form podcast series highlighting how every U.S. state has contributed to the history and development of these domains.
New restrictions on defense contractor share buybacks and dividends may need to be written by Congress into law in order to withstand legal challenges, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee said Jan. 8.
Northrop Grumman and Kratos have been selected by the Marine Corps to develop the service’s first batch of loyal wingman drones, the companies announced Jan. 8.
The ability to sense and understand activities in the air and on the sea is one of Royal Canadian Air Force Maj. Gen. Chris McKenna’s main responsibilities as operational commander for the Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command Region. However, he faces a number of hurdles to accomplish that mission. Canada has no organic airborne early warning and control aircraft and is relying on an aging satellite system with many users competing for its products.
Italy has formally announced an air force base in Sicily is to become the first F-35 training school outside the United States, reflecting a growth in demand for pilot training after fresh orders of the jet in Europe.
Airmen recently spent three days on the streets of San Francisco practicing how to avoid being captured as part of “Exercise Sourdough,” the Defense Department’s largest urban evasion training event, Air Force officials said.
A Chinese national has been charged with taking unauthorized pictures of Whiteman Air Force Base and the B-2 Spirit aircraft.
The collection of ribbons military members wear on their uniform is sometimes called a “rack,” but a Montana National Guard helicopter pilot agreed this week he’d been caught trying to bring home several particularly large ones from a flight last spring.
