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Less than a month after the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin took the extraordinary step of pausing all operations for 24 hours to “address extremism in the ranks.” Pentagon officials had been shaken by service members’ prominent role in the events…

The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of Javelin missiles and related equipment to Brazil for an estimated cost of up to $74 million, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.

The United States will provide $1 billion in security assistance for Ukraine, the single largest package using the president's drawdown authority, including munitions for long-range weapons and armored medical transport vehicles, acting Pentagon spokesman Todd Breasseale said on Monday. The package adds to about $8.8 billion in aid the United…

The United States will provide $1 billion in security assistance for Ukraine, the single largest package using the president's drawdown authority, including munitions for long-range weapons and armored medical transport vehicles, acting Pentagon spokesman Todd Breasseale said on Monday.

Ex-president complained to John Kelly ‘why can’t you be like the German generals?’ according to excerpt from the New Yorker

China's military announced fresh military drills on Monday in the seas and airspace around Taiwan - a day after the scheduled end of its largest ever exercises to protest against last week's visit to Taipei by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. China's Eastern Theatre Command said it would conduct joint…

(This Aug 7 story corrects quote from Chinese foreign ministry in par 30 to 'waters off its own territory' not 'in our own waters')

Ignoring Joe Biden’s advice not to go, the US politician might have brought the region a step closer to war

The UN's nuclear watchdog chief warns of a "very real risk of a nuclear disaster" after shelling damages a high-voltage power line at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.