President Donald Trump on Jan. 21 scrapped the tariffs that he threatened to impose on eight European nations to press for U.S. control over Greenland, pulling a dramatic reversal shortly after insisting he wanted to get the island “including right, title, and ownership.”
Emboldened by the U.S. ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration is searching for Cuban government insiders who can help cut a deal to push out the Communist regime by the end of the year, people familiar with the matter said.
A political quagmire in Taiwan has stalled plans by its president, Lai Ching-te, to sharply increase military spending, even as President Trump has pressed the island to pay more for its own defense against China’s campaign to bring it under its control.
The U.S. military on Jan. 21 began the transfer of up to 7,000 Islamic State suspects from detention centers in northeastern Syria to neighboring Iraq, officials said, following a jailbreak this week that exposed how an increasingly fraught security situation has upended years of status quo.
As the Defense Department works to overhaul its antiquated and clunky acquisition system, it wants to hear from you. “Bring us your most disruptive, most unconstrained ideas,” Mike Cadenazzi, assistant defense secretary for industrial base policy, said during a keynote speech at the Honolulu Defense Forum last week. “We need radically different outcomes in the defense industrial base. So we need radically different ideas on how to get there.”
After years of testing mishaps and schedule delays, the Army says it has begun the fielding process for its Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon system.
The Qatari-donated plane being overhauled to become a new Air Force One jet is on track to be delivered to President Trump this summer, according to the Air Force. While the exact delivery date hasn’t yet been determined, it is possible the plane, painted in the red, white and dark-blue scheme favored by the president, could be part of the July festivities celebrating the country’s 250th birthday.
Thousands of U.S. Marines are deploying to Norway this month to begin training for a NATO military exercise as President Donald Trump’s push to control Greenland continues to unsettle European leaders.
President Donald Trump has brought up the possibility of changing the designation of the U.S. Air Force’s F-47 sixth-generation stealth fighter if the program gets to a point where “I don’t like it.” The nomenclature was chosen in part to highlight his personal support for the program, which is currently one of the top acquisition priorities across the entire U.S. military.
“Guys like Woody, they saved the world.” That’s how Robert Koch, the mayor of Roxbury, Mass., described retired Brig. Gen. Enoch “Woody” Woodhouse, who celebrated his 99th birthday Jan. 14 in a party fit for a Boston-area legend.
