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A small Pentagon budget office whose mission is to make sure taxpayer dollars are spent well has landed in the crosshairs of Republican lawmakers who say the office is not listening to Congress.The Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation…

The Marine Corps will continue to overhaul its forces—including a search for battlefield-manufacturing technologies—if Gen. Eric Smith is confirmed as the service’s next commandant, he told senators Tuesday.“Force Design is on track. We…

House authorizers want over half a billion dollars to fund an alternative engine for the F-35 —despite Air Force officials saying the program is too expensive to ever make it into the fighter. The Air Force recently decided it will…

For nearly half of her Navy career, Lt. Jennifer Knapp has worn boots that didn’t fit—because her size wasn’t kept in stock. They would have been “a disaster” if she was in a situation where she had to tread water to survive, she said.“I…

When Tobey Whitney joined the Army at 32 after 9/11, he expected to serve just four years. But after two decades and three deployments to Iraq, Sgt. Maj. Whitney is still in uniform, part of a broader trend of soldiers choosing to stay…

The Marine Corps will reconfigure all of its infantry battalions and shrink them from roughly 900 to just over 800 Marines by this fall as part of the service’s ongoing Force Design modernization effort. The units will also have more…

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The Army’s largest base will be officially renamed Fort Liberty on Friday following a once-politically controversial plan to ditch the Confederate Army namesakes of nine U.S. Army bases. With the renaming of Fort Liberty, the effort is…

For decades, dawn brought the clarion bugle call of reveille across the lush campus of the Veterans Home of California in Yountville, 60 miles north of San Francisco. The residents, the earliest among them veterans of the Mexican-American…

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia—NATO is unlikely to vote to admit Ukraine as a member when the alliance summit convenes in July, but it ought to offer the beleaguered country “concrete and tangible security guarantees,” French President Emmanuel…