WORLD: Leadership

Oct. 5, 2023
Gen. Charles Q. Brown confirmed as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
As President Joe Biden and Republicans in Congress negotiate just weeks before the U.S. is set to hit its debt ceiling, Pentagon and Air Force leaders offered stark warnings that America defaulting on its debt would “embolden” China, potentially devastate the Defense Department’s budget, and ...

WORLD: Russia-Ukraine

April 27, 2023
WORLD: Russia-Ukraine; US, Russia Stop Sharing Nuclear Forces Data; DOD Balks at F-16s, MQ-9s for Ukraine.
Top U.S. defense officials dismissed the notion that the U.S. would provide aircraft—manned or unmanned—anytime soon to Ukraine in Congressional hearings March 28 and 29. While Kyiv has repeatedly asked for F-16 fighters and MQ-9 drones, the Biden administration has refrained from providing them and ...
The Pentagon released video of a March 14 incident involving a Russian Su-27 fighter and a U.S. Air Force MQ-9, which resulted in the American plane crashing into the Black Sea. The MQ-9 was conducting a surveillance mission when two Su-27 Flankers intercepted it. The ...
Continued aggressive attacks by Russia have kept the flow of military aid from the west rising and the sophistication of the weapons on offer growing.