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Earlier this month, the Army's top general in charge of supplying units with troops blamed a lack of readiness on limited time for training, adding that lack of funding isn't the biggest challenge. Head of Army Forces Command Gen. Rober…

It's not like ISIS didn't know the attack on Mosul was coming. After all, Mosul is one of the last major cities in Iraq that the group holds. So the radical Islamic fighters prepared for the battle that is now raging on the outskirts of Mosul by d…

Okay let's be honest, it's the combat planes that get most of the attention. What airplane did "Top Gun" turn into a star? The F-14 Tomcat. "Iron Eagle's" sex appeal came from the spritely F-16 Fighting Falcon. Even "Flight of th…

The Navy just commissioned its newest littoral combat ship, the USS Detroit, with a ceremony in the city that bears its name. The Detroit is a Freedom-class LCS and is designed to operate near the coast with different modules that can es…

Marine Corps Gen. James "Mad Dog" Mattis is known for his aggressive tactics and his even more aggressive quotes.While he embraced counter-insurgency tactics with the rest of the military, his quotes put a decidedly lethal spin on…

A few months ago the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals found out that Air Force Academy survival school students kill rabbits and chickens as part of their training regimen. So PETA 

Two U.S. military commands involved in buying and fielding new gear for special operators have released a list of what features they would like to see in future military vehicles — and the list shows some serious upgrades for warfighters. …

As the fighting in Mosul has started, some ISIS militants have been trying to make a fast getaway. Not a bad idea when you consider the atrocities they've committed and

A late-1990s television spot jokingly priced a U.S. Marine Corps Harrier jet as a possible "Pepsi Points" prize -- at the mere cost of 7,000,000 Pepsi Points – that's 16.8 million cans of Pepsi. "Tens of millions of Americans, and p…

The Coast Guard's USS Glendale served in the Pacific in World War II, and it was commanded by a reservist who earned the Bronze Star for his actions during a Japanese sneak attack on Dec. 5, 1944. Coast Guard Reserve Lt. Cmdr. H…

Five of the top national security think tanks exchanged widely varying proposals on the force structure and funding the U.S. armed services would need to confront the global security environment 10 years from now.

After the Luftwaffe lost the Battle of Britain in 1940, Hermann Goering ordered an ambitious new project he called the "3x1000" fighter. Goering wanted a plane that could deliver 1,000 kilograms of ordnance to a target 1,000 kilometers and fly 1,0…

The men were calling in bomb after bomb — pinpointing al Qaeda positions in the hills and ridges of Tora Bora, miles from support and operating on their own for days. In the end, the special operators from the Army's elite Delta Force …

The battle for Mosul kicked off Oct. 17, and ISIS is falling back faster than anticipated. Iraqi, Kurdish, and various small militias have moved a force of over 1…

This fall, Air Force fighter pilots taking to the skies to train might find themselves going up against a ghost. Pilots chasing "enemy" jets in air-to-air dog-fighting exercises or avoiding them during training targeting runs will see t…

The Air Force recently approved incentive pay for Airmen assigned to Turkey, just months after a military coup prompted defense officials to suspend accompanied deployments there. The Pentagon had ordered Air Force dependents out of the country in…

For more than 50 years of rotary wing aviation, lots of helicopters have come and gone from the U.S. military. But only one is still in service — the H-1 "Huey." …