Allvin’s Retirement Casts Shadow on ‘Re-Optimization’ With his Aug. 18 announcement that he would retire this fall, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin ended months of speculation about his future and marked his tenure as among the shortest...
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US Doubles Airstrikes in Somalia, Surpassing 2024 Levels By Chris Gordon U.S. Africa Command has ratcheted up airstrikes in Somalia as it looks to pressure militants there, the head of the command told reporters May 30. Marine Corps Gen. Michael...
Over half a million troops would serve in the Air Force and Space Force in 2026, the Trump administration said last week, keeping the workforce essentially flat as Airmen and Guardians tackle a growing list of missions around the globe.
The Trump administration arrived in Washington promising to restore America’s military, reinvigorate deterrence, and bring back its warrior ethos. These are not things that can change overnight, but there is evidence of progress. Topics that were gingerly avoided six months...
The Air Force is delaying the start of the promotion testing cycle for technical sergeants two weeks, citing the need to purge study materials of content on diversity, equity, and inclusion to follow executive orders from President Donald Trump.
A new memo lays out the initial steps for how the Department of the Air Force plans to comply with President Donald Trump’s directive to send federal employees back to full-time in-person work.
President-elect Donald Trump announced his choices to fill out the top positions on his Pentagon team Dec. 22, but the next Secretary of the Air Force remains a notable vacancy.
The Air Force is deferring decisions on the Next-Generation Air Dominance stealth fighter program to the incoming Trump Administration, the service announced. It will continue its review of the program in the meantime, as well as continue the Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction phase being ...
When Donald Trump begins his second term as president in January, national security law experts anticipate he may return to his old habit of issuing orders to the military via social media, a practice which could cause confusion in the ranks.
President-elect Donald Trump has said he will nominate Pete Hegseth, a Fox News personality, as Secretary of Defense for Trump's second term. The choice rounds out most of the national security selections for the new administration.
The new, public version of the National Defense Strategy, unveiled by Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III at the Pentagon, again calls out China as the U.S. military’s “pacing threat” but offers no force-sizing construct nor any specifics about numbers of forces the U.S. needs ...
The interim National Security Strategy guidance, together with the fiscal 2022 defense budget request, make clear that whatever their other differences, the Biden administration will stick with the National Defense Strategy put forward by the Trump administration.
