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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 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’

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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

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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)
Crime

Pentagon has known of crime reporting lapses for 20 years

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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

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FDA chief Scott Gottlieb said Tuesday that he is seeking an alternative to proposed language in the National Defense Authorization Act. The alternative seeks to head off an agency brawl over the authority for approving new drugs used by service members. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Healthcare

FDA and Pentagon in turf war over product approvals

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President Trump delivered a speech to the U.S. troops at the U.S. Yokota Air Base, on the outskirts of Tokyo, on Sunday. Trump arrived in Japan Sunday on a five-nation trip to Asia, his second extended foreign trip since taking office and his first to Asia. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
National Security

Trump asks Congress for $6 billion for missile defense, ship repair, Asia strategy

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Nigerian military sources said they think fighters linked to the Islamic State decided to capture and kidnap Army Sgt. La David Johnson in an ambush that killed Johnson and three other U.S. soldiers last month. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)
National Security

Army Sgt. La David Johnson may have been captured by militants before being killed in Niger: Report

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United States Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said part of the strategy designed to demoralize a resurgent Taliban is to no longer release any tactical information that would provide aid or comfort to the enemy. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)
National Security

US military classifies Afghanistan data as Taliban make gains

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