"It may not get to exactly what I want, but it'll be better than to get nothing that I want," Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown says of his recent talks with Congress about the service's budget plans.
SecDef Lloyd Austin "is at this moment in the process of conducting a very very thorough review” of planning to move 12,000 troops out of Germany, EUCOM chief Gen. Wolters says.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
Austin and Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken both praise allies, slam Trump admin. handling of alliances across the globe
"There really is former-general-officer fatigue, bordering on apprehension, on the Hill – on both sides of the aisle," a former Senate staffer says. "Trump really burned out a lot of folks."
"Look, I'm an Army guy,” Milley said. "And I love the Army...but the fundamental defense of the United States and the ability to project power forward will always be for America naval and air and space power."
Esper's Navy plan remains stuck at the White House, but with the Trump term running out, what parts of it will survive?
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
The move "will put special operations command on par with the military services for the first time,” acting SecDef Chris Miller announced today
Ousted SecDef Esper liked the idea, but Navy Sec. Braithwaite - with just two months left in office -- hasn't spoken about it with the new Acting Secretary before rolling the idea out today.
Anthony Tata, who called President Obama a "terrorist leader" now runs the Pentagon's policy office
After months of speculation, Esper meets the fate of so many other officials over the past four years and is fired by Tweet
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Given the deal's March expiration, and despite the upcoming US election, the State Department's R. Clarke Cooper said "it’s incumbent upon us and our Japanese counterparts to actually continue to maintain focus on the negotiations now."
"If anything, the provocations are coming from Beijing. The bullying behavior...is where the provocateurs lie, not with Taiwan [which is] maintaining its own self defense," a top State Department official says.
It’s unclear if Robert O’Brien’s calls for hypersonic missiles on destroyers and building more frigates indicate he is inserting himself in Pentagon budget planning.
In a recent meeting between the Navy Secretary and the president of Palau, the US signaled a commitment to "enhanced presence here and for more US Military activity in the future."