Tag: Pentagon

The defense budget is big. The only thing more costly than spending $700 billion on national security is to not provide that funding. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

Congress’ budgetary uncertainty is harming the troops

Carter Ham · November 21, 2017 5:01 am

Military leaders have made it crystal clear for months that they want Congress to lift a Budget Control Act spending cap for defense and pass a 2018 budget that allows the services to start new programs, buy spare parts and contract for fighter jets and other hardware. (iStock photo)

National Security

Pentagon headed for another stopgap budget in December

Travis J. Tritten · November 20, 2017 7:43 pm

A U.S. official told the Associated Press that an official announcement will happen as early as next week. (iStock)

National Security

Official Defense Department account retweets post saying Trump should resign

Jamie McIntyre, David Brown · November 16, 2017 7:28 pm

The soldier who died in Kuwait on Tuesday was supporting the U.S. counterterrorism mission in Afghanistan, known as Operation Freedom's Sentinel. (iStock)

National Security

Pentagon identifies US soldier killed in Kuwait from ‘non-combat related incident’

Daniel Chaitin · November 16, 2017 3:32 am

In a new book, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown references a 2002 Pentagon report commissioned by Donald Rumsfeld, which apparently found that evidence for "the existence of WMDs [in Iraq] was weak, even negligible and in key areas nonexistent." (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Beltway Confidential

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is rewriting the history of the Iraq War

Tom Rogan · November 15, 2017 7:56 pm

Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, head of the Defense Health Agency, signed off on the medical waiver after a federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump's controversial bans on federal funding for gender reassignment surgeries and block transgender people from serving in the military last month. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Pentagon to pay bill for gender transition surgery for soldier: Report

Katie Leach · November 14, 2017 10:27 pm

"We have a critical shortage of highly qualified and skilled people as it is in the military. The military is not a jobs program," the Arizona lawmaker said. (AP Photo/Matt York)

House Democrat: ‘We should not be trying to save military jobs for American citizens’

Anna Giaritelli · November 9, 2017 5:34 pm

FILE - This Feb. 6, 2013, file photo shows French armoured vehicles heading towards the Niger border before making a left turn north in Gao, northern Mali. American and French forces have spent years providing training and support to the militaries of Mali, Niger and other vulnerable countries in this corner of Africa where Islamic extremism has become entrenched over the past decade. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Army expects to conclude Niger ambush investigation in January 2018

Diana Stancy Correll · November 9, 2017 12:07 am

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., right, and Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., left, walk on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House, Senate lawmakers urge delay of defense bill over FDA concerns

Robert King · November 8, 2017 6:10 pm

The Air Force lapse in the Devin P. Kelley case, which is now under review by the Pentagon's inspector general, made it possible for him to buy guns before his attack Sunday at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. (Markku Ulander/Lehtikuva via AP)

Pentagon has known of crime reporting lapses for 20 years

Associated Press · November 7, 2017 9:43 pm

National Security

Trump Pentagon nominee on Texas shooting: It’s ‘insane’ that civilians can buy ‘assault’ rifles

Travis J. Tritten · November 7, 2017 5:20 pm

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said he plans to pick up the pace of hearings for President Trump's Pentagon nominees next week as about 70 percent of the 57 Senate-confirmed positions at the Defense Department must still be filled. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

National Security

John McCain plans to pick up the pace on Trump’s Pentagon nominees

Travis J. Tritten · November 7, 2017 4:22 pm