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Missile defense is moving toward a more global, integrated system to counter ballistic missiles as well as cruise missiles, said Army Lt. Gen. Richard Formica, head of Army Space and Missile Defense Command and US Strategic Command’s Joint Functional Component...

The information that the United States has on China’s nuclear weapons buildup is quite thin and controversial, said Richard Fisher, senior fellow of Asian military affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center. For example, the United States estimates that...

A newly restored Vietnam War-era F-100D Super Sabre is now on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. This particular airframe “participated throughout the Vietnam War and is currently in the markings it...

The Air Force came away from the 2013 Warrior Games with a total of 30 medals, nearly doubling its medal count from last year. Airmen won three gold, 11 silver, and 16 bronze medals. Three-time triathlete and first-time Warrior Games...

Foreign nations “are increasing the role of nuclear weapons in their national security and US policy needs to take that into account,” said Franklin Miller, senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Speaking on Capitol Hill on...

The Navy has executed cost-saving measures to ease the price tag of the submarine destined to replace the current fleet of Ohio-class nuclear missile submarines, said Vice Adm. William Burke, deputy chief of naval operations for warfare systems, on Tuesday....

p, .ExternalClass Participants last week at Angel Thunder 2013, the world’s largest personnel recovery exercise, trained in an urban operations scenario at Playas, N.M. Exercise planners said the April 17 drill involved the detonation of at least four simultaneous improvised...

Airmen at the Angel Thunder personnel recovery exercise took part this week in an irregular warfare scenario designed to mirror situations that combat search and rescue forces might encounter in real-world operations. During this controlled scenario in Playas, N.M., on...

With sequestration barreling down, the Defense Department needs to have a strong leader who will carry the Pentagon through these austere times, said panel members at an American Enterprise Institute event in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. Since Defense Secretary Chuck...

Pentagon leaders need to change their mindset when it comes to rebalancing military compensation, said Todd Harrison, senior fellow for defense budget studies at the Center for Security and Budgetary Assessments in Washington, D.C. Speaking at an American Enterprise Institute...

Lockheed Martin’s board of directors made Orlando Carvalho executive vice president of the company’s Aeronautics business area and Lorraine Martin vice president and general manager of the F-35 strike fighter program, effective immediately, announced the company. The changes come as...

Despite sequestration, Maj. Gen. Steven Kwast, the Air Force’s Quadrennial Defense Review director, said completing the forthcoming review can be successful “as long as you’re strategic in the way you think.” “There’s still value even though we have sequestration hanging...

The Air Force’s decision this week to suspend military tuition assistance for the remainder of Fiscal 2013 will impact some 115,000 airmen taking 277,000 courses at 1,200 colleges and universities around the United States, Lt. Gen. Darrell Jones, deputy chief...

Airmen walked away with 30 medals, including three gold, from the 2013 Warrior Games in Colorado Springs, Colo., nearly doubling their medal count from the previous year.

All 14 Total Force units participating in Angel Thunder 2013 are slated to deploy in the next 100 days, which is why the world's largest, and US military's only, personnel recovery exercise has escaped budget sequestration's ax.