Hegseth champions special operations as the force for today’s threats
There has been a 200% increase in SOF missions over the past three years, the defense secretary said.
By Todd South
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SecDef wields axe to brass, HQs, formations to fashion leaner Army
Hegseth ordered the Army secretary to cut programs, reduce the number of general officers in the ranks and consolidate offices, commands and headquarters.
By Jen Judson
Here’s what Esper’s AFRICOM review has decided so far
The defense secretary shot down the idea the U.S. would look to leave Africa as a whole.
By Aaron Mehta
Esper signs military tenants’ bill of rights. Here’s what covered and what’s not.
Three of the rights are still in the works.
By Karen Jowers
Working military families will soon get more access to DoD child care
Military families will have higher priority than DoD civilians.
By Karen Jowers
US and South Korea may scale back joint military exercises over coronavirus fears
Cancellation of joint exercises on the Korean peninsula has fanned worries by national security experts and lawmakers that U.S. forces and their South Korean allies are ill prepared to handle a crisis or conflict orchestrated by North Korea.
This week in Congress: Budget hearings present opportunity to grill Cabinet officials
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of Feb. 24, 2020.
Will military children get higher priority in child development centers?
Secretary of Defense says new child care policy coming soon.
Trump moves to cut union bargaining for DoD feds
Under the new memorandum, the defense secretary would have the authority to determine whether collective bargaining at certain department agencies and subdivisions hampers national security efforts.
By Jessie Bur
How one organization is working to correct cases of Jewish WWII soldiers mistakenly buried under Latin Cross headstones
“It is very important for us for a soldier who lived and died as an American be acknowledged for posterity as an American. It is also equally important for us that a soldier who lived and died as a Jew, be recognized as a Jew.”
By Dylan Gresik
US can’t continue tolerating Russian ‘noncompliance’ on Open Skies, says Esper
The two nuclear powers have quarreled over the treaty in recent years, including fights about what camera equipment should be allowed on the planes and U.S. accusations that Russia is restricting flights over Kaliningrad.
By Aaron Mehta