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The U.S. military speaks frequently about the lessons they’re learning from the war in Ukraine. The Air Force has sought to evaluate the Ukrainian military’s methods for detecting drones, while the Army has revamped training, fielded…

The Army beat its recruiting goal this year through a combination of lowered targets and increased efforts, after failing to hit higher goals in 2022 and 2023. The service recruited 55,300 soldiers against a goal of 55,000 in fiscal…

The White House claimed that “thousands” of veterans could benefit when President Biden announced this summer he was issuing pardons to gay veterans who were forced out of the military because of their sexual orientation “and have carried…

The Air Force, long accustomed to buying its aircraft with everything included, is moving toward ordering the mission systems separately.An “element of our next-generation acquisition model is having direct relationships, where it makes…

It took nearly two years of badgering for the Department of Veterans Affairs to approve amputee veteran Matt Brown’s prosthetic leg socket specialized for jiujitsu. It took only three months of practicing his cherished martial art for Brown…

The Air Force is planning a tabletop exercise to gauge U.S. readiness to react to a wide spectrum of nuclear-related scenarios, part of a larger effort to prepare for them, a service leader said on Wednesday.“What if, God forbid, there was…

The U.S. may change its F-16 training program for Ukrainian pilots following an investigation into the fatal crash of one of the country’s donated jets.“Anything that comes out of that, any preliminary things, we're taking a look at to…

After long years of worrying about recruiting younger employees, the U.S. intelligence community is getting plenty of applicants. Now it needs to change to keep their rising stars, officials say. “The quality of new…

It seems like the National Guard has been everywhere in recent years: Battling wildfires this week in California, patrolling the New York City subway, cleaning up after hurricanes, administering Covid vaccines, filling in as school bus…

The United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany will impose sanctions on key Russian and Iranian entities, including Iran Air, after Russia sent “dozens” of troops to Iran to train on Fath-360 ballistic missiles, according to the…