Washington is charging toward a partial government shutdown over President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda even as senators and the White House scramble to find an elusive off-ramp. ... In the wake of the Minnesota shooting, Democrats want Republicans to join them in stripping out funding for the Department of Homeland Security from the sprawling package. Yet any changes would require further action in the House, which is out of town until Feb. 2— after a shutdown would start at 12:01 a.m. Jan. 31.
“President Trump likes to take credit for persuading NATO to spend 5% of GDP on defense, but in 2025 he didn’t ask Congress to meet that target. That changed this month as he said he’ll propose a military budget of $1.5 trillion. It’s the right decision for a world of proliferating threats,” writes the Wall Street Journal editorial board.
North Korea launched short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Jan. 27, according to its neighbors, as the North heightens animosities with rival South Korea ahead of a major political meeting.
The number of Russian and Ukrainian troops killed, wounded or missing during nearly four years of war is on track to reach two million by this spring, according to a new study, a stunning toll as Russia’s assault on its neighbor grinds on.
The Navy needs to jumpstart its F/A-XX stealth fighter program, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle said Jan. 27, because the rapid spread of advanced anti-aircraft systems means adversaries like Iran are increasingly able to shoot down the Navy’s current mainstay F-18s.
Details of a multiday Air Force exercise in the Middle East are sparse as the U.S. military presence in the region grows and the White House warns Iran to stop its violent crackdown on anti-regime protestors.
The Pentagon said it consolidated policies around protecting American military facilities from drone threats after unclear guidance that left base commanders scrambling on how to respond and years of increased unmanned aerial system sightings over key Defense Department assets.
he B-21 Raider stealth bomber is one of the Air Force’s most ambitious weapons programs, designed to carry out deep-penetrating nuclear and conventional strikes over heavily defended skies and other missions its predecessor, the B-2, was never envisioned as doing. As the head of the U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command, one of Gen. Stephen L. Davis’s main tasks is guiding the development of the Raider, of which 100 are currently slated for procurement and that number could grow substantially larger in the coming years.
Satellite imagery appears to show China is set to reclaim land on another reef in the South China Sea for yet another military base. Simultaneously, China demonstrated the use of hundreds of fishing boats to support future combat operations against Taiwan.
The U.S. Air Force is looking to possibly double its Doomsday aircraft fleet as it brings on the replacement for the E-4B Nightwatch, according to a new pitch to industry.
An elite U.S. Navy test and evaluation squadron, the VX-9 “Vampires” based out of NAWS China Lake, are now flying the U.S. Air Force’s F-35A model. The Navy traditionally flies the carrier-capable F-35C and the Marines fly both the short-takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) F-35B and the F-35C.
