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It’s been nearly four months since Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired the chief of naval operations and several other military officials, and only one position—the chairman of the Joint Chiefs—has been replaced with a Senate-confirmed…

Two big oddities infused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s testimony as he made the rounds on Capitol Hill this week to justify the Pentagon’s budget request to appropriators: first, the Defense Department has not publicly released its full…

The Pentagon is proposing to halve its planned F-35 buy and boost funding for the sixth-gen F-47 fighter jet—but many of its 2026 budget-proposal details hinge on the reconciliation legislation still being debated on Capitol Hill.The budget…

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.In an effort launched shortly after DOGE’s creation, ProPublica has now identified more than…

The U.S. intelligence community should lean harder on industry and make fewer of its tech tools in-house, the director of national intelligence said Tuesday."I want to get us away from having the government trying to build tech solutions…

The Air Force’s plan to buy 26 new E-7 Wedgetail radar planes is in jeopardy as the Pentagon shifts its focus to space-based surveillance, the defense secretary said Tuesday. The service has already spent more than $1 billion to…

Obama- and Biden-era cybersecurity rules will no longer be used to punish Americans and U.S. firms who engage in malicious cyber activities, nor used to deter election meddling, among other changes ordered up by President Trump…

The Marine Corps wants the Navy to build more amphibious ships to support the Corps’ goal of keeping three amphibious ready groups at sea at all times—but the service still needs to figure out how many it needs, and funding for 2026 remains…

Army senior leaders took scores of questions from both houses of Congress this week, part of a yearly ritual to justify the service’s budget request. But they didn’t have a lot of answers on the service’s recently announced transformation…

When the promises politicians made went unkept, when they were left without any reasonable alternatives, American veterans took to the streets by the thousands, forced to become their own advocates.The year was 1932, and the men who’d…