Tag: Military

Ranking Member Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., questions U.S. Central Command Commander Gen. Joseph Votel as he testifies at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, in Washington.

Spy balloon will give more intelligence to US than China, Senate Armed Services chairman says

Mike Brest · February 7, 2023 4:11 pm

Trump’s last defense secretary says no one held ‘accountable’ for Afghanistan and Iraq wars

Mike Brest · February 7, 2023 4:00 am

‘He projected weakness’: Steve Daines pans Biden’s ‘indecisive’ leadership over Chinese spy balloon

Virginia Aabram · February 6, 2023 10:09 pm

In this photo provided by Chad Fish, the remnants of a large balloon drift above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it, Feb. 4, 2023. The downing of the suspected Chinese spy balloon by a missile from an F-22 fighter jet created a spectacle over one of the state's tourism hubs and drew crowds reacting with a mixture of bewildered gazing, distress and cheering.

US military recovered ‘some remnants’ of Chinese spy balloon

Mike Brest · February 6, 2023 6:32 pm

In this photo provided by Chad Fish, the remnants of a large balloon drift above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it, Feb. 4, 2023. The downing of the suspected Chinese spy balloon by a missile from an F-22 fighter jet created a spectacle over one of the state's tourism hubs and drew crowds reacting with a mixture of bewildered gazing, distress and cheering.

White House prepares to brief key Trump officials on Chinese spy balloon incursions

Mike Brest · February 6, 2023 6:30 pm

In this photo provided by Chad Fish, the remnants of a large balloon drift above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it, Feb. 4, 2023. The downing of the suspected Chinese spy balloon by a missile from an F-22 fighter jet created a spectacle over one of the state's tourism hubs and drew crowds reacting with a mixture of bewildered gazing, distress and cheering.

US sends divers to recover downed Chinese spy balloon

Brady Knox · February 6, 2023 5:51 pm

National Counterterrorism Center director Christopher Miller was named by President Trump as Acting Secretary of Defense November 9, 2020.

Trump’s last Pentagon chief pans Biden ‘Keystone Kops’ China balloon response

Mike Brest · February 6, 2023 4:31 pm

Within ranks, trust in our military declines amid politicization of national defense

Beltway Confidential

Within ranks, trust in our military declines amid politicization of national defense

Patty-Jane Geller, Jack Kraemer · February 6, 2023 4:07 pm

China ‘strongly disapproves of’ US shooting down spy balloon, dangles retaliation

Ryan King · February 5, 2023 4:20 pm

Pentagon says Chinese spy balloon attempted to surveil ‘strategic sites’ in the US

Mike Brest · February 4, 2023 10:06 pm

US poised to announce new aid package including longer-range missiles

Mike Brest · February 3, 2023 4:32 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of a board of trustees of the Russian Geographical Society in a library of Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 15, 2014.

Beltway Confidential

The Russians aren’t complying with the New START nuclear arms control treaty — now what?

Peter Brookes · February 3, 2023 1:35 pm