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The Defense Department’s $849.8 billion request for 2025, constrained by law and arriving before Congress has passed a 2024 budget, aims to retire older weapons such as 56 A-10 Warthogs, and pull back on new orders for the F-35 Joint Strike…

The Pentagon wants $500 million to replenish stockpiles tapped to aid Taiwan—a first for the department’s budget request. But the eventual goal is to pair that ask with supplemental funding stalled in Congress. The funding request…

Russia in recent months has made battlefield gains in some pockets of Ukraine, leading to new calls for Ukraine to relinquish territory as part of negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But CIA director William Burns on Monday…

In an overnight operation this weekend, the U.S. military airlifted non-essential embassy personnel from Haiti early Sunday, defense officials at Southern Command announced afterward. Germany also evacuated its ambassador to the adjoining…

Sweden formally joined the Russia-focused NATO alliance Thursday, nearly two years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of its neighbor Ukraine, which spurred Sweden and neighboring Finland to apply for membership in the collective…

The U.S. military has cleared its fleet of V-22 Ospreys to fly again, though officials say they still don’t know why a critical part failed.The tiltrotor fleet was grounded on Dec. 6, a week after a “materiel failure” caused an Air Force…

The U.S. will launch an emergency military mission to establish a port to deliver much-needed humanitarian aid into Gaza, a senior White House official told reporters on Thursday.The effort is to be formally announced by President Joe Biden…

CAMP PENDLETON, California—Soldiers found targets in a tiny fraction of the normal time by streamlining procedures and speeding up data processing during a recent experiment, Army officials said Tuesday. The Army is seeing a “two…

The Iran-backed Houthis killed three people in their first fatal missile attack on commercial shipping vessels off the coast of Yemen, U.S. officials from the Tampa-based Central Command announced Wednesday afternoon. At least four others…

Government facilities were the third-largest critical infrastructure sector targeted by ransomware attacks in 2023, according to cybercrime statistics released Wednesday by the FBI.The agency’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3,…