List of Department of Defense articles
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President Donald Trump after a meeting at the Pentagon on July 20. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Here Comes the Trump Pentagon — Finally
After months of infighting and Senate holds, top Defense Department posts are slated to move forward.
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A U.S. Air Force F-16 pilot prepares for a flight at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan on February 1, 2016. (U.S. Air Force) The Private Air Force Preparing U.S. Pilots for the Next War
For years, the U.S. military secretly flew Russian aircraft. Now it needs a cheaper option.
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French and U.S. Army soldiers bed down during a field training exercise in Arta, Djibouti, on March 16, 2016. (U.S. Air Force) Used to Afghanistan, Special Operators Suffer From Lack of Support in Africa
Now they fear restrictions on their mission.
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President Donald Trump speaks on the North Korean threat at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 19, 2017. Trump Touts Military Option for North Korea That Generals Warn Would Be ‘Horrific’
The foreign policy in Trump’s Twitter feed is competing with the foreign policy of the U.S. government.
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People run from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. A gunman opened fire on a music festival in Las Vegas, leaving at least 59 people dead and more than 500 injured. (David Becker/Getty Images) FBI and DHS Assessment Outlined Threat of Lone Offenders Targeting Las Vegas
The U.S. government warned of possible attacks on entertainment venues and mass gatherings.
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ref crop Aid Groups Slam Trump’s Reduced Refugee Quota
It's the lowest cap on refugees in decades.
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People hold up placards to protest against US President Donald Trump's executive order suspending the resettlement of refugees and banning people from seven majority-Muslim countries from entry into the US, during a rally near the US embassy in Tokyo on January 31, 2017. Some 40 foreigners living in Japan participated in the rally, as a defiant US President Trump struggled to defuse a mounting backlash over his ban on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority nations. / AFP / KAZUHIRO NOGI (Photo credit should read KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images) Trump to Cut Number of Refugees in U.S. by More Than Half
A long, contentious internal debate concludes with the lowest quota in almost 40 years.
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NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - SEPhTEMBER 20: Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis (L), shakes hands with Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. David L. Goldfein before delivering the keynote address at the Air Force Association 2017 Air, Space and Cyber Conference, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center on September 20, 2017 in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) After Trump Speech, Mattis Says North Korea Crisis Still ‘Diplomatic Effort’
A military option is on the table, the defense chief says, but sanctions are main cudgel for reining in Pyongyang for now.
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AAAB52 With Pentagon, State Positions Vacant, Trump Nuclear Review Slows Down
New weapons are in the mix of options being considered.
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The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain, with a hole on its portside after a collision with an oil tanker, makes its way to Changi naval base in Singapore on August 21, 2017. Ten US sailors were missing and five injured after their destroyer collided with a tanker east of Singapore early Monday, the second accident involving an American warship in two months. / AFP PHOTO / Roslan RAHMAN (Photo credit should read ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Navy Investigating if Destroyer Crash Was Caused by Cyberattack
The probe of the USS John S. McCain collision will be a model for future investigations.
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TIJUANA, MEXICO - JANUARY 27: A view of the US-Mexican border fence at Playas de Tijuana on January 27, 2017 in Tijuana, Mexico. U.S. President Donald Trump announced a proposal to impose a 20 percent tax on all imported goods from Mexico to pay for the border wall between the United States and Mexico. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto canceled a planned meeting with President Trump over who would pay for Trump's campaign promise to build a border wall. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Survey: Mexico’s View of U.S. Turns Drastically Negative
Mexican approval of the United States is the lowest it has been in over a decade, but many still want to move to America.
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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 11: U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis speaks at a ceremony to commemorate the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at the Pentagon September 11, 2017 in Washington, D.C. U.S. President Donald Trump was presiding over his first 9/11 commemoration on the 16th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people when hijackers flew commercial airplanes into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images) Does the Military Need a Micromanager?
The Trump White House has delegated enormous responsibility to the Pentagon to look after itself, with predictable results.
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A member of the Syrian government forces holds a position with an anti-tank missile system in Kobajjep area, on the southwestern outskirts of Deir Ezzor, on September 5, 2017, during the ongoing battle against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists. Syria's army and allied fighters, backed by Russian air support, have been advancing towards Deir Ezzor on several fronts in recent weeks, and entered the Brigade 137 base on its western edge, in what Moscow hailed as a key "strategic victory". / AFP PHOTO / George OURFALIAN (Photo credit should read GEORGE OURFALIAN/AFP/Getty Images) The Pentagon Is Spending $2 Billion Running Soviet-Era Guns to Syrian Rebels
An army of contractors and subcontractors in Eastern Europe is working to supply America’s sprawling — and legally questionable — anti-Islamic State campaign in Syria.
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raqqa1 The U.S. Is in Denial About the Civilians It’s Killing in Syria
The commanding general in the war against the Islamic State is ignoring mounting evidence that the coalition campaign has killed hundreds of innocents.
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<> on July 2, 2009 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Trump’s Presidential Afghanistan Speech
Details may be slim, but the president nailed the "why" of America's longest war — and boldly went against his political base.
