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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday offered one of his strongest criticisms yet of the Israeli Defense Forces campaign in Gaza and its new focus on Rafah, telling reporters at the Pentagon: “There’s a better way to do…

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Three years have passed since President Joe Biden announced that the United States would pull all of its 2,500 troops out of Afghanistan, starting a chain reaction that ended in thousands of Afghans flooding Hamid Karzai International…

As part of the Air Force’s sweeping overhaul to prepare for a fight against China, the service will start testing a new deployment model at bases around the country. Six bases will host experimental “Air Task Forces”—units that will…

With F-35 deliveries on hold due to upgrade woes, House authorizers want to trim this year’s purchases of the jet and put the money toward fixing several problems.The Pentagon would lose 10 F-35s across all three services under the House…

The Army would gain a drone branch under proposed language in the 2025 defense authorization bill, a move intended to further professionalize the field and put it on par with the service’s other disciplines. The Army currently fields…

Spy agencies must safeguard data that can easily identify Americans, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said, issuing guidance for the ethical use of commercial data that analysts use in their day-to-day…

TAMPA—Experiments with ever-larger drone swarms are revealing a need for new concepts of operations and new ways of training human operators, the Air Force Special Operations Forces Command says.In the next few months, AFSOC will expand…