The Defense Department on Tuesday denied it tried to quash a 2015 study that found it could save $125 billion in noncombat administrative programs but admitted it has so far only found a small fraction of those savings. The department hopes to save $7.9 billion during the next five years through recommendations in the study […]
DOD Denies it Tried to Shelve Study That Found $125B in Waste…
U.S. Carrier Starts ‘Routine’ Patrols in South China Sea…
The United States deployed the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson to the disputed waters of the South China Sea on Saturday as part of maritime “routine operations.” Sailing with the 97,000-ton Vinson is the guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer, the Navy said in a statement. The Vinson carries a flight group of more than […]
U.S. Patience ‘Won’t Endure Forever’: First Mattis Now Pence Tells NATO to Spend More or Else…
The US is committed to partnership with NATO and the EU, but expects its allies to live up to the promise of paying for their own defense by the end of 2017, Vice President Mike Pence said during a visit to the NATO headquarters in Brussels. During his visit to Brussels, Secretary of Defense James […]
How The Military Excluded The White House From International Syria Negotiations…
Ash Carter Says U.S. Forces Will Be in the Middle East Long After Islamic State…
The Pentagon’s two top leaders said Wednesday that the U.S. military will keep forces deployed to the Middle East long after the defeat of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria…
Why U.S. Had to Kill the Syrian Ceasefire by Finian Cunningham…
There are several sound reasons for concluding that the US-led air strike on the Syrian army base near Deir Ezzor last weekend was a deliberate act of murderous sabotage…