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Congress Gears Up to Pass $900 Billion Defense Policy Bill

Lawmakers aim to send the bill, which authorizes $8 billion more than the White House requested, to the president’s desk by the end of the year. Read More

Unpacking the $900 billion annual defense bill: What’s in? What’s out?

Congressional leaders on Sunday released the text of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a compromise defense policy bill that fully repeals sanctions on Syria, seeks to put ... Read More

Hegseth highlights US.-first national defense strategy

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday took the podium at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum to attack post-Cold War U.S. foreign policy, declaring a new military focus on the Western ... Read More

How the War Department became the Department of Defense – and back again

"The Founders chose this name to signal our strength and resolve to the world," the order declared. "The name 'Department of War', more than the current 'Department of Defense', ensures peace through ... Read More

US official cites South Korea as model in defense spending push

Elbridge Colby, the U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, stated on the 8th regarding the National Security Strategy (NSS), a recently announced diplomatic, military, and security guideline of ... Read More

US Steps up Defense Cooperation in Southeast Asia

Washington is making progress with a range of states: from staunch ally the Philippines to newer partner Vietnam and even Cambodia, where China’s influence dominates. Read More

Integrating Homeland Security and Homeland Defense Options for the Department of War

A soldier assigned to 977th Military Police Company monitors the southern border near Eagle Pass, Texas, March 8, 2025. U.S. Northern Command is working together with the Department of Homeland ... Read More

Department of Defense name change is no coincidence | Letter

It is no small irony that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth changed the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War. Our peacetime military is a wartime military. This allows them to be ... Read More

Why Is the US Defense Department Funding China’s Military Research?

Hong Kong’s Grenfell Tower Moment: When Grief Became Sedition A recent report by the House Select Committee on the CCP issued a startling warning: U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) funding has ... Read More

Judge orders Department of Defense to restore books removed from schools over 'wokeness'

U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles’ Oct. 20 ruling is on a preliminary injunction the ACLU requested in May. A hearing on the merits of the case will follow. The ACLU sued the Defense ... Read More

Press groups condemn US Defense Department rules governing media access

Oct 8 (Reuters) - The association representing journalists who cover the U.S. Department of Defense on Wednesday condemned a new press access policy that could see reporters lose their access as early ... Read More

Pete Hegseth's title was misspelled as 'Ssecretary of War' on nameplate

According to images and screenshots shared of the meeting, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's title was misspelled on his placard, reading "Ssecretary of War." Snopes readers shared an image of ... Read More