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Trump Wants 25,000 Troops Out of Europe; Congress Says Not So Fast

The Pentagon is looking again at how many American troops it really needs in Europe. This time, the numbers matter. The United States has roughly 80,000...

Future Force Desk

For 60 Years, the Military Has Argued About Taking the Pilot Out of the Plane

More than half a century ago, the American military was already arguing about whether the pilot belonged in the airplane. Missiles were getting smarter. Computers...

AI Is Already Changing How Wars Are Fought

Anthropic says people overseas used Claude to help track U.S. naval forces, develop weapons, control groups of drones and figure out why a guided...

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Roosevelt Heads West as Lincoln Still Steams Home

USS Theodore Roosevelt has left San Diego on Sunday. And somewhere across the Pacific, USS Abraham Lincoln is still coming home. One San Diego carrier is...

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The Battlefield Is Moving Into Orbit

The United States has weapons in orbit. Not someday. Not in a Pentagon war game. Now. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink acknowledged Monday that the U.S....

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Air Force Identifies Eight Killed in Edwards B-52 Crash

The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday released the names of eight airmen and civilian personnel killed in Monday's crash of a B-52 Stratofortress shortly...

U.S. F-15E Shot Down Over Iran; Rescue Effort Underway for Two Aircrew (Updated)

UPDATE APRIL 5, 1 a.m. EDT: U.S. forces have rescued the second crew member of the downed F-15E Strike Eagle, according to United States...

The United States has now unleashed B-52 bombers on Iran

If you want to understand what’s happening, forget the polished briefings and the Pentagon vocabulary words. Watch the aircraft. The Air Force tells the...

Raptors Forward: Washington Stacks the Deck Against Tehran

When you move F-22s, you’re not posturing. You’re loading the rifle. The U.S. Air Force has surged F-22 Raptors and a growing armada of aerial...

U.S. Airpower Stacks Up in the Caribbean Under Operation Southern Spear

The orders from the Pentagon came down last weekend. Quietly. No ceremony. No speeches. The United States is continuing to ramp up its military posture...

OPINION

For more than 80 years, the United States has maintained an unusual proposition: The government can pay journalists without owning their journalism. It was never...

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