Tag: Pentagon

President Obama’s 2017 budget request for the Marine Corps released Feb. 9 includes a small increase over last year’s funding, while continuing to procure expensive F-35B joint strike fighters. The Marine Corps is requesting a total of $23.4 billion base funding, only about $200 million more than was enacted in 2016. The base budget includes […]

(CNSNews.com) – After saying for months that the U.S. is not cooperating with Russia in Syria – beyond basic air safety “deconfliction” measures – a senior military official disclosed Thursday that the Pentagon has asked Russia to avoid areas where U.S. Special Forces troops are located in northern Syria. The U.S. and Russia are both […]

Editor’s Note: There are a lot of guesses as to what sixth-Generation air dominance will look like, some of which we detailed when the concepts were released a few weeks ago. It’s fair to say there are differing opinions as to what the finish product will look like or act like, but it’s very likely–simply […]

The Chinese military has deployed an advanced surface-to-air missile system to one of its contested islands in the South China Sea according to civilian satellite imagery exclusively obtained by Fox News, more evidence that China is increasingly “militarizing” its islands in the South China Sea and ramping up tensions in the region. The imagery from […]

The Pentagon has a problem. After concentrating on guerrilla warfare for the last decade and a half, the U.S. military is entering a brave new world — one filled with new adversaries. Russia, China, North Korea and others have been building up air, space, ground, and naval forces over the last 15 years, and their […]

What happens when you bring together some of the nation’s leading hackers, the Pentagon’s chief of training and an Air Force Academy professor who teaches cyber skills to cadets? They all agree on one thing: The government’s approach to cyber security is coming up short. They sat on the dais, an unusual assortment of experts […]

A new Pentagon directive means training to close with and kill the enemy is now going to require we don’t leave behind as large a carbon footprint in the process.

A new report has confirmed what SOFREP reported last month about there being more troops in Iraq and Syria than were initially reported by the Pentagon.

Picture this: A Chinese fighter jet accidentally crashes into a Navy P-8 Poseidon surveillance plane while attempting to buzz it over the South China Sea, killing all on board both aircraft. Fearing U.S. retaliation, China goes a relatively unexpected route: It uses surface-to-air missiles to shoot numerous U.S. satellites out of the heavens in quick […]

Hopefully this will be a sign of things to come from the new commander. In the meantime, many in the special operations community will breathe a sigh of relief.

The exact message from the Pentagon to ISIS‘ tanker drivers just before U.S. warplanes decimated the terrorist army’s oil convoys last November has been revealed. Text of leaflets dropped before bombing began, warning truck drivers to run for their lives, was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the blog War […]

Until recently, the Pentagon has kept quiet on the amount of Air Force drone crashes. In the past year alone, at least $2 million in damaged drones occurred. More importantly, the drone losses are impacting the resources that field commanders have to work with in many of the countries where counter terrorism efforts are taking […]