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Trump’s first day backThe U.S. military must produce a plan to “seal the borders” under an executive order signed Monday by President Donald Trump, Defense One’s Bradley Peniston reports. Under the 665-word order, the U.S. defense secretary…

It is a quirk of constitutional checks-and-balances interpretation that presidents are generally exempt from laws that seek to prevent U.S. officials from acting in their own interests instead of the country’s. Still, modern chief…

Tel Aviv mulls ceasefireWith security group’s OK, decision moves to full cabinet. A ceasefire deal negotiated by Israel and Hamas has cleared the national-security subset of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, and is…

Officials from the U.S. and Qatar say they’ve reached an agreeable ceasefire for Israel and Hamas, potentially ending more than 15 months of war that’s killed more than 46,000 Palestinians and caused more than two million people to flee…

The Navy may have capped its fleet of much-anticipated—and much-maligned—littoral combat ships at 28 for now, but their commanders haven’t stopped trying to squeeze every last ounce of capability out of them.LCSs deployed to the Persian…

The Marine Corps is working to break out of the ground-combat box the Global War on Terror wedged them into, but whether Force Design 2030 is actually realized by that date depends quite a bit on whether Congress decides to fund everything…

‘I know what I don’t know,’ SecDef pick says at confirmation hearing. Pete Hegseth conceded that he lacks the experience of previous defense secretaries but said what he has is enough. “It's time to give someone with dust on his boots…

Former Fox TV host and Army major Pete Hegseth is testifying before a Senate panel that could advance his nomination to become America’s 29th Pentagon chief. The packed hearing began at 9:30 a.m. ET, and is livestreaming via the Senate…

Ukrainian officials say they’ve captured two North Korean soldiers during fighting in Russia’s Kursk region late last week. “Two soldiers, though wounded, survived and were transported to Kyiv, where they are now communicating with the…

The U.S. is not trying to goad China into a military conflict, the Pentagon’s no. 2 official said Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s remark last summer that he thinks the U.S. is trying to bait him into invading Taiwan so the U.S. can…