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President Trump arrives to sign the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Dec. 12. But the NDAA provides no actual money to the Pentagon and analysts believe lawmakers will eventually settle on deal to fund at least the 10 percent increase in base defense spending requested by the president. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Foreign Policy

Defense industry poised for boost by ‘Trump tailwind’

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Unarmed and armed drones, vehicles, helicopters, and artillery are among the items that will be shipped. Members of Fort Benning's Army security-force assistance brigade could be deployed by February to serve as combat advisers. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Justin T. Updegraff, Operation Resolute Support via AP)
Foreign Policy

Trump’s Afghanistan strategy includes deploying 1,000 combat advisers, military equipment: Report

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President Trump adjusts his jacket after signing the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Foreign Policy

Trump signs $700B defense policy bill into law, says military has ‘gotta be perfecto’

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Despite repeated questioning, Rood refused to rule out seeking a waiver to an ethics agreement that bars him from taking any part in Lockheed business for two years. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek )
National Security

Nominee for Pentagon policy chief advances after grilling from John McCain, Elizabeth Warren over industry conflicts

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Defense hawks led by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, fought for months to get the NDAA and its $634 billion in base defense spending through Congress. Another $66 billion in the NDAA for overseas military operations is exempt from the 2018 spending cap. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP)
Foreign Policy

Congress passed a $700 billion defense policy bill. The Pentagon may never get all of it

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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

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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

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The spending would overstep legal limits set on defense spending for the coming year by more than $80 billion. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
National Security

Senate sends $700 billion budget cap-busting defense bill to Trump

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Lockheed Martin is the nation's largest defense contractor and is the prime defense contractor for the multinational F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
National Security

John McCain and Elizabeth Warren grill Pentagon nominee over future role in Lockheed Martin business

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On Wednesday, members from the House and the Senate struck an agreement on a bill that proposes a major hike in defense spending and a raft of Pentagon reforms. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Foreign Policy

Here’s a look at what did (and didn’t) make it into the $700 billion defense policy bill

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