Ukraine’s war is redefining defense manufacturing, pushing the U.S. toward faster iteration, modular systems, and tighter factory-to-frontline feedback loops.

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A new version of the annual defense policy bill released on Monday could limit Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's travel plans next year if he doesn't release video of recent military strikes.

The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act that the House will vote on this week includes some major conservative wins.

Congressional leaders on Sunday released the text of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a compromise defense policy bill that fully repeals sanctions on Syria, seeks to put

Congress limits Pentagon's ability to reduce troops in Europe below 76,000 and South Korea below 28,500 in new defense bill, easing allied concerns.

NPR's Tom Bowman says his decades of roaming Pentagon halls ended after NPR refused to sign a new policy requiring reporters to wait for official information releases - but his reporting hasn't slowed at all.

The United States expects its European allies to take on a much greater burden of conventional deterrence in Europe as the continent faces a threat from a belligerent and revanchist Russia. If Europe is to succeed, it must dramatically scale up its own ...

Section 1. Purpose. On August 7, 1789, 236 years ago, President George Washington signed into law a bill establishing the United States Department of War to oversee the operation and maintenance of military and naval affairs. It was under this name ...

Working journalists aren’t saying that what we do toiling in the news vineyards has the lyrical insight of Emily Dickinson, the passion of Malcolm X, the prose style of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

The Pentagon’s Golden Dome missile defense shield, still in its nascent phase, could fundamentally transform nuclear strategy. One might argue Golden Dome, if demonstrated as successful, could reshape deterrence in ways not seen since the United States and the Soviet Union first escalated their nuclear arms race in the 1950s.