President Donald Trump berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for being “disrespectful” Feb. 28 in an extraordinary Oval Office meeting, then abruptly called off the signing of a minerals deal that Trump said would have moved Ukraine closer to ending its war with Russia.
Roughly 3,000 more Active-Duty troops will deploy to the southern border, the Pentagon announced March 1, expanding a major military operation to curb illegal immigration—a central priority of the Trump administration.
The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier and the support ships of its strike group arrived at Busan, South Korea, on March 2, in a bolstering of the U.S. military presence there following new missile tests by North Korea.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took half steps over the weekend to repair the damage done in an Oval Office blowout, expressing gratitude to the U.S., and President Trump personally, for military aid over the years. But Zelenskyy offered no apology, a sign of the difficult road ahead for him in Washington.
The U.S. Air Force is set to launch an environmental impact review for a novel military logistics project, proposing the construction of two landing pads on Johnston Island, a remote atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
F-35 pilots at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada will begin training in the U.S. Air Force’s most hyper-realistic battlespace simulator ever this year—when the Joint Simulation Environment reaches initial operational capability at the Joint Integrated Test and Training Center Nellis (JITTC-N). But Nellis and the F-35 are just phase one of the Air Force’s revolutionary training technology, which will dramatically change the way warfighters prepare for combat.
The Air Force will inspect its entire fleet of 89 KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling tankers after cracks were found on two of the four new planes set to be sent to the Military Delivery Center, the Air Force told The War Zone exclusively. The issue was discovered by Boeing, which makes the jets, the Air Force said.
Air Force commanders issued cautionary statements Feb. 28 telling current and former service members to be on alert for efforts by private aviation companies with Chinese military ties to recruit them with lucrative job offers.
The United States appears to be poised to reassert its nuclear footprint in the United Kingdom after nearly two decades of inactivity, according to a new watchdog report. The Federation of American Scientists published a report compiling evidence it says strongly suggests the U.S. Air Force is planning to bring nuclear weapons back to Royal Air Force Base Lakenheath, England.
The Defense Department’s civilian employees can expect a second email asking them to lay out what they did the previous week—and this time, they must respond, the defense secretary said in a Feb. 27 memo to his workforce.
Nearly 100 cadets at the Air Force Academy in Colorado are being investigated after widespread cheating was discovered on a weekly knowledge test, which is a violation of the school's honor code. Dozens of cadets “have admitted to either cheating or tolerating cheating” on the test and were punished, a news release from the school said.
Two Democratic senators are raising alarms about Troy Meink, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Air Force, following reports that Elon Musk recommended Meink for the job after he pushed a lucrative satellite contract towards Musk’s SpaceX.
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander just etched its name into the history books. Blue Ghost aced its touchdown try early March 2, becoming just the second private spacecraft ever to soft-land on the moon. The lander hauled 10 science experiments to the lunar surface for NASA, which was understandably happy with today's result
