Otto Kreisher

Forces aligned with the Libyan Government of National Accord have reduced the territory controlled by ISIS in the city of Sirte by about one-third with the support of US airstrikes, Pentagon spokesman Gordon Trowbridge said Friday. Some of the buildings...

A task force formed by House Republicans found senior leaders at US Central Command altered intelligence reports on ISIS to present findings that were “consistently more positive than analysis produced by other elements of the Intelligence Community.” The task force’s...

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein declared Wednesday that after being forced by budget constraints to find “operational efficiencies,” particularly in manpower and conventional airpower accounts, it is “time to revitalize the squadron as the warfighting core of...

The Missile Defense Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a $36.4 million contract to install, integrate, and test Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense equipment in Poland, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. The contract includes building and equipping a deckhouse structure similar to that...

To prepare pilots for a future high-end conflict in which an adversary could deny use of space-based assets, the Air Force has integrated the Army’s first space aggressor unit into Red Flag-Alaska 16-3 to degrade GPS navigation. The Army unit...

US forces must relearn old skills and practices in case an adversary denies them access to the services’ advanced-technology capabilities, the top Marine Corps officer said Tuesday. With the growing threat of being forced to operate in an information-denied environment,...

A competition conducted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency demonstrated that carefully programmed machines independently could find and fix software safety problems in a widely used computer code. DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge final phase had seven teams participating in...

Some critics of the Obama administration’s aggressive use of remotely piloted aircraft to kill high-level terrorists complain that the practice precludes the opportunity to gain valuable intelligence by capturing and interrogating them. But the newly released presidential policy guidance on...

After years of lawsuits and public pressure on the Obama administration to provide the legal basis for its lethal strikes by remotely piloted aircraft against terrorists, the White House has released a previously secret “playbook” explaining the criteria and process...

The massive Rim of the Pacific 2016 international maritime exercise involving 40 naval vessels, more than 200 aircraft, and 25,000 personnel from 26 nations has concluded and declared “an unqualified success,” by Vice Adm. Nora Tyson. Tyson, commander of the...

The slow rate of F-35 buys hinders aviation readiness, the Marine Corps’ aviation boss and retired Air Force Lt. Gen. David Deptula said Friday. Speaking at a forum hosted by the American Enterprise Institute and AFA’s Mitchell Institute, Deputy Commandant...

Echoing the Marine Corps aviation leader’s concerns about his service’s readiness crisis, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. David Deptula reported Friday that “over 50 percent of our Air Force can’t fly because of lack of maintenance.” Joining Marine Corps Lt....

The Marine Corps is designated the force in readiness by Congress, but after 15 years of “hard fighting,” aging aircraft and a shortage of spare parts, “the numbers of aircraft in an up status is not what it needs to...

Faced with a global security environment that is “complex, dynamic, and volatile,” the commander of US Strategic Command stressed the need for resiliency and flexibility in “delivering effective deterrence and assurance.” In response to the threats from nuclear-armed and belligerent...

Air Force Global Strike Command boss Gen. Robin Rand said his command needs a “minimum of 100” B-21s, but indicated strongly that it should have more of the Long-Range Strike Bombers to perform all of its missions. “When asked to...