Tag: Pentagon

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., walks onstage as Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., points to him while he speaks to reporters at the Capitol on July 27, 2017.

National Security

Lindsey Graham says he will push to keep US troops in Afghanistan to honor John McCain’s legacy

Travis J. Tritten · August 28, 2018 7:48 pm

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., confer at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on April 3, 2014.

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Senate Armed Services plots its next moves after John McCain’s death

Travis J. Tritten · August 27, 2018 8:02 pm

Flags flying a half-staff in honor of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., frame the U.S. Capital at daybreak in Washington, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018. McCain, 81, died at his ranch in Arizona after a yearlong battle with brain cancer.

Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell want flags kept at half-staff until John McCain is buried

Robert Donachie · August 27, 2018 5:22 pm

House Committee on the Judiciary and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chair Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. listens during a hearing in D.C.

Trey Gowdy orders Jim Mattis to produce records related to allegations Pentagon spokeswoman misused staff

Allison Elyse Gualtieri · August 23, 2018 11:46 pm

Afghan security forces arrive at the site of an attack by gunmen, in Kabul, Afghanistan.

National Security

Stuck on stalemate: Trump’s Afghanistan strategy turns one year old

Jamie McIntyre · August 21, 2018 4:00 am

President Trumpâs lofty vision of big tanks and vintage aircraft moving through the streets of Washington in a show of patriotic force crumbled Friday under the weight of logistics, including a $92 million price tag.

National Security

Trump canceled his military parade without input or cost estimate from the Pentagon

Jamie McIntyre · August 20, 2018 5:27 pm

Budget Director Mick Mulvaney testifies before the Senate Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, on President Donald Trump's fiscal year 2019 budget proposal.

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Mick Mulvaney: ‘Shouldn’t be news to anybody’ that DC politically motivated to derail Trump’s military parade

Naomi Lim · August 19, 2018 2:28 pm

In this July 29, 2017, photo transgender U.S. Army Capt. Jennifer Sims lifts her uniform during an interview with the Associated Press in Beratzhausen near Regensburg, Germany.

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Courts order Trump to reveal internal talks on military’s transgender policy

Travis J. Tritten · August 18, 2018 4:00 am

China: U.S. should ‘stop releasing’ reports on military

Joel Gehrke · August 17, 2018 11:04 pm

President Trump speaks before signing a $716 billion defense policy bill in Fort Drum, N.Y.

National Security

Trump faults local politicians, high cost in canceling military parade

Diana Stancy Correll · August 17, 2018 12:33 pm

U.S. soldiers march along main Khreshchatyk Street during a military parade to celebrate Independence Day in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 24, 2017.

National Security

Pentagon announces Trump’s Veterans Day military parade postponed to 2019

Anna Giaritelli · August 17, 2018 12:24 am

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump watch the traditional Bastille Day military parade on the Champs Elysees, in Paris, with French President Emmanuel Macron. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

National Security

Trump’s military parade would cost $92 million: Report

Melissa Quinn · August 16, 2018 4:09 pm