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Shake-ups at NSA, NSCWho is in charge of the National Security Agency? It’s unclear after President Trump fired Gen. Timothy Haugh, NSA and Cyber Command chief, plus Haugh’s civilian deputy on Thursday night, according to the Washington…

China is rapidly building out its arsenal of counterspace weapons: everything from ground-based lasers to satellites that can grab other satellites, all of which pose a “grave threat” to the U.S., according to Chief of Space Operations Gen.…

White House’s Signal use widensNational security adviser Mike Waltz set up at least 20 Signal group chats to discuss global hot spots, people on them have told Politico. “Two of the people said they were in or have direct knowledge of at…

Denmark's Defense Ministry made waves with its March 30 announcement of an ambitious naval plan that aims to buy at least 26 new vessels and lays out short- and long-term roadmaps for the Royal Danish Navy's and the…

White House mulls Greenland takeover options, the Washington Post reports. One option: offer Greenlanders more than the $600 million annual subsidy provided by NATO ally Denmark. “This is a lot higher than that,” said one official…

If President Trump’s tariffs and threats shatter the U.S.-Canadian defense partnership, the Pentagon would lose some ability to track incoming enemy threats.Without Canada’s radar sites, “the northern approaches would be severely…

Developing: The bodies of three U.S. soldiers were recovered Monday after their sunken M88A2 Hercules vehicle was finally retrieved from a swampy bog in eastern Lithuania, just a half-dozen miles from the border with Belarus. “We will…

Senior Defense Department leaders have less than two weeks to submit proposals to shrink and reorganize their commands, agencies, and departments, Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a Friday memo that also proffered early-retirement and…

SecDef’s group chat fallout continues: A federal judge on Thursday ordered Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and several others on President Donald Trump’s national security team “to preserve all Signal communications between March 11 and March…

New: Reporters for Germany’s Der Spiegel found private phone numbers, email addresses and even some passwords for Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth, White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi…