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After this week, Defense Department civilians will no longer have to submit an email list of five things they accomplished over the previous week, according to a Friday email from the Pentagon’s acting personnel chief, ending a requirement…

Might a centuries-old war power be the key to U.S. cyber retaliation?In recent closed-door discussions, Trump administration and industry officials have discussed whether modern-day letters of marque—once used to…

The Pentagon’s IT agency will lose nearly 10 percent of its total staff as part of the Trump administration’s push to slash the federal workforce, the agency’s director told senators Wednesday. But the workforce reduction may have its…

The Defense Department has officially accepted a luxury jet from Qatar and has begun planning how to convert the plane into an Air Force One, despite bipartisan concern that accepting a foreign government’s plane is both dangerous and…

The Space Force is losing nearly 14 percent of its civilian workers—about 780 people—due to the Trump administration’s effort to dramatically cut the federal workforce, the service’s chief said Tuesday.Initiatives such as early retirement…

TAMPA, Florida—Today’s special operators are rapidly becoming the model for the rest of the U.S. military, disrupting how the Defense Department does everything from buying gear to responding to global crises. You might not notice that…

“One of the things, for the people that are interested in the military, that I asked to look into—the F-35,” President Trump told an audience in Qatar on Thursday, launching into a minutes-long disquisition that left defense officials and…

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard fired two top officials on the National Intelligence Council in a move aimed at ending the “weaponization and politicization” of the intelligence community, a spokesperson for her office…

May 13, 2025 | Mike Frankel and Hrisanthi PickettOne trillion! It’s an exclamation-point-inducing, mind-jarringly inconceivable number for most humans. Start counting once every second and you’ll need more than 31,700 years to get…

The Trump administration is expected to nominate Vice Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley to lead U.S. Special Operations Command, according to sources familiar with the matter. Two former senior defense officials, a former senior military…