Defense

Steve Witkoff, right, and Jared Kushner, left listen to JD Vance, not pictured, speaking.

Trump administration to push Russia to accept NATO-like security guarantees for Ukraine from US

Mike Brest · November 9, 2026 4:20 pm

U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, assemble a Neros Archer first-person view drone on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Oct. 14, 2026.

Meet the defense company that’s gotten the Pentagon’s attention

Adm. Brad Cooper speaks to members of the media during a press briefing with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, left, at the Pentagon, Thursday, April 16, 2026 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

CENTCOM announces task force to blockade Iranian ground transit routes

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., speaks to reporters

House GOP Oversight chairman says ‘there’s a lot of questions about Hegseth’

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he greets Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago club.

Netanyahu says US aid cut makes way for ‘mutual investment’ amid unclear plans for military cooperation

Pete Hegseth salutes and looks ahead with conviction with people around him.

Firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed, Pentagon says

David Zimmermann October 8, 2026 4:43 pm

Van Dyke.

Judge weighs bid to dismiss soldier’s case over Polymarket bets tied to Maduro raid

Kaelan Deese October 7, 2026 5:30 pm

U.S. Navy Operations Specialist 3rd Class Diem Nguyen stands watch aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).

Hegseth awards USS Lincoln carrier group Presidential Unit Citation for leading US war against Iran

Mike Brest October 7, 2026 3:49 pm

Nidal Hasan.

Firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan set for December

Robert Blankenship October 6, 2026 10:18 pm

USMC photograph of NMESIS missile system.

The US makes a Taiwan NMESIS missile mess for China

Tom Rogan October 6, 2026 1:34 pm

Houthi spokesman raises his fist in the air.

Houthis strike two airports in Saudi Arabia as Turkey and Pakistan send troops to support Riyadh

Molly Parks October 6, 2026 11:18 am

The future USS Idaho (SSN 799) pulls into Submarine Base New London.

Anduril and the Navy announce $6.6 billion investment in new facility to build critical components for submarines

Mike Brest October 6, 2026 9:05 am

Nidal Hasan and Donald Trump

Trump approves firing squad execution of 2009 Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan

Robert Blankenship October 5, 2026 8:39 pm

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters

Trump: Military moved bombers out of UK due to ‘some threats’

Mike Brest October 5, 2026 5:30 pm

U.S. Space Force Gen. Stephen Whiting, Commander, U.S. Space Command provided a command update to gathered media, military, and civilian attendees at the 2025 Space and Missile Defense Symposium, in Huntsville, Alabama, August 5, 2025. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Courtney Lockwood)

Space Command tries to bridge Colorado and Alabama as joint future of space defense

Mike Brest October 5, 2026 5:30 pm

A soldier, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, boards a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III.

Pentagon reveals factors that it considers when determining allies and adversaries’ ‘will to fight’

Mike Brest October 5, 2026 4:57 pm

Yemeni military reinforcements travel in a truck, with some members stationed in the back, as they drive along the coastal road between Aden and Mokha, Yemen.

Yemeni government says it recaptured Bab el Mandeb Strait

Brady Knox October 5, 2026 1:01 pm