The U.S. military attacked three more alleged drug-trafficking boats off the Latin American coast, this time all three “were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and were engaged in narco-trafficking,” offi…

Two U.S. soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in Syria on Saturday by what officials said was a lone ISIS gunman. Part of the Pentagon’s much-reduced yet enduring counterterrorism mission in the country, they were the first troops to d…

The pair of accountability reports highlight Joint Program Office woes and maintenance failures.

More F-35s to the Caribbean. An Air National Guard F-35 wing is deploying as part of the Pentagon’s campaign against alleged drug runners off the coast of Latin America. A U.S. official confirmed to Defense One that the Vermont Air National Guard…

The new service was supposed to meld the “tribes” of operators and acquisition specialists. It didn’t happen.

Top DOD officials defended National Guard deployments to American cities, which are facing multiple injunctions from local judges, during a Senate hearing.

Dozens of U.S. troops seized a tanker ship allegedly transiting oil to Iran from Venezuela, President Trump announced Wednesday. “We've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, large tanker, very large, largest one ever, actually, and …

Nearly half of Americans (48%) oppose U.S. military attacks on alleged drug trafficking boats, and that includes almost a fifth (19%) of Republicans, according to a new survey conducted in early December and published Wednesday by Reuters/Ipsos.  …

Five days after President Trump said he was ok with releasing video of the U.S. military’s first attack on alleged drug trafficking boats off the Latin American coast, he backed away from that pledge Monday, telling reporters he’d let his e…

Last summer’s $156 billion defense spending boost through the reconciliation bill is likely “only just the beginning,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told an audience at the Reagan National Defense Forum in California on Saturday. &l…