Aug. 7 marks the 25th anniversary of Operation Desert Shield; the rapid deployment of US forces to Saudi Arabia to block Saddam Hussein from advancing beyond his Aug. 2, 1990 seizure of Kuwait and its oilfields. The US Air Force...

The Government Accountability Office has found that the 10-year budget estimates for sustaining and modernizing America’s nuclear weapons submitted in May 2014 by the departments of energy and defense have generally improved from last year, when auditors found significant underestimations....

A new year-long professional military education program at Kirtland AFB, N.M., designed to build deep expertise in the nuclear enterprise for Air Force Global Strike Command officers, civilians, and other service members is getting under way and is slated to...

The Senate on Aug. 5 confirmed Gen. Mark Milley to be the next Chief of Staff of the Army, Adm. John Richardson to be the next Chief of Naval Operations, and Lt. Gen. Robert Neller for his fourth star and...

Recent events in Ukraine demonstrate that the potential for major theater war in the 21st century is not as unthinkable as conventional wisdom may hold, said Peter Singer, a senior fellow for New America Foundation, on Thursday. Singer and the...

An Mi-17 helicopter transporting Afghan Army troops in Zabul P?rovince, Afghanistan, crashed Thursday, killing 17 soldiers, including two crew members, Afghan officials told Voice of America. The Afghan Defense Ministry said “technical fault” caused the crash during redeployment operations, not...

Maj. Gen. Andrew Mueller assumed his new role as the Air Force’s chief of safety from Maj. Gen. Kurt Neubauer during a July 24 ceremony at Air Force Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Mueller, who has more than 4,000 hours in...

An effort to develop affordable, high-performance millimeter wave seeker technology for high-performance munitions recently received an additional $400,000 from the Air Force Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer program office, according to an Aug. 5 release. Millimeter wave seekers...