Last week, President Donald J. Trump chose the deck of the newest U.S. aircraft carrier, the $13 billion USS Gerald R. Ford, for a speech extolling his...
The first time I met Gen. David Petraeus, he said something that surprised me.
The question of the West’s relationship with Russia has been buried by media stories of hacking, sex scandals, and potential blackmail.
No one knows how seriously to take President Donald Trump’s threat to seize Iraq’s oil.
Throughout the presidential campaign, the Bush family and many of its Republican allies turned their backs on Donald Trump. Now, they’re finding common cause...
President-elect Donald Trump named the head of ExxonMobil Corp., Rex Tillerson, as his choice for U.S. secretary of state Tuesday and won backing from some...
Former US defense secretary Robert Gates issued a sharp critique of both presidential candidates in the Wall Street Journal, but blasted Donald Trump as being...
President Harry S. Truman, who became president on April 12, 1945, upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, didn’t learn about the Manhattan Project to...
In an interview during the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama explained that Ronald Reagan had changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon and Bill...
A doomed U.S. plan now on hold to train Syrian rebel fighters outside the country to fight ISIS was "nuts," former defense secretary Robert Gates said
US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter arrived in Madrid on Sunday, beginning a European tour amid alarm over Russian bombardments in Syria and the refugee crisis...
The Boy Scouts of America is expected to end its ban on gay adult leaders on Monday, dismantling a policy that has deeply divided the membership of the...
Screaming through the air along southern Virginia’s coast, the Air Force’s F-22 Raptor routinely puts on a dazzling show of loops, dives and combat maneuvers...
The man often called America’s top military officer, the most powerful person in uniform, actually commands nothing.
Recent victories by ISIS have called Barack Obama’s Middle East strategy into question and once again made Iraq an issue on the U.S. electoral battlefield.
Chuck Hagel may not have been able to work with the ever-more powerful National Security Council staff, but this discussion of personalities misses the point.
President Barack Obama’s pick to be the next defense secretary, Ashton Carter, will inherit a tense relationship between the U.S. military and the White House...
President Barack Obama tapped policy wonk Ashton Carter to head the sprawling Defense Department Friday, heralding his new nominee as one of the U.S.’...
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is resigning at a particularly tough time for U.S. foreign and defense policy, with one war ending, another just beginning and...
Presidents often need new energy and talent to refurbish their second terms. George W. Bush opted for such a shake-up in 2006 and it arguably saved his...