Top Senate Democrats said Tuesday the onus is on Republican leaders to intervene over Sen. Tommy Tuberville's hold on hundreds of military promotions that continue to languish without Senate approval.
China's defense chief has turned down a face-to-face meeting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin when they attend the annual Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in Singapore next weekend.
U.S. Space Command, the military's newest unified combatant command, remains in a kind of limbo more than two years after then-President Donald Trump signed off on Huntsville, Alabama, to be its permanent home.
Pentagon officials said Thursday that a U.S.-built Patriot air defense system is back in action in Kyiv after it was damaged in a Russian missile strike. On Tuesday, Russia launched an air barrage at Ukraine's capital, including several Kh-47 Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, the most sophisticated conventional weapons in Moscow's arsenal.