Congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle appear to support the need to defeat the ISIS terrorist organization, though they disagree on the details of President Obama’s strategy. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said Obama...

One day after President Obama laid out his four-point strategy to defeat ISIS, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Buck McKeon laid out his own strategy to defeat the extremist organization. First, the US must “acknowledge” ISIS as an “immediate...

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) expressed confidence Thursday that Congress would pass a Fiscal 2015 defense authorization bill when it returns to Washington after the mid-term congressional elections. Levin noted that the lawmakers have approved the...

A multilateral exercise with the US, Canada, and Russia has been cancelled because of Russia’s continued military aggression in Ukraine, reported ABC News via the Associated Press. This year’s exercise would have marked the sixth year for Vigilant Eagle, typically...

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is a “direct challenge to the post-Cold War hopes for Europe,” and the United States must respond by helping Ukraine defend itself and making it clear to Russian President Vladimir Putin that “he cannot reject the...

SrA. Ariful Haque, a water and fuel maintenance technician with the 374th Civil Engineer Squadron at Yokota AB, Japan, is one of the Air Force’s 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2014. Haque led five Japanese-national employees in maintaining...

President Obama has asked Congress to authorize a training center in Saudi Arabia to prepare Syrian opposition fighters against ISIS attacks. At an American Enterprise Institute event Thursday, HASC Chairman Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.), said the President called up members...

Nearly 140 Air National Guardsmen recently participated in the NATO-led exercise, Steadfast Javelin II, in Eastern Europe. The airmen from six ANG bases supported the exercise “by providing personnel air drop and air landings in support of forcible entry, force...

Lockheed Martin is opening a new technology center in its Palo Alto research and development facility to focus on advanced optical systems that could be used in satellites, lasers, telescopes, and targeting systems, the company announced. The Optical Payload Center...