The Pentagon is again dipping into its own stock to provide Ukraine with up to $250 million worth of firepower, including artillery ammunition and anti-tank weapons as Kyiv fends off slow but steady Russian advances in the disputed Donetsk region.
The Pentagon is scrambling to fill a growing chasm in the recruitment ranks that next year will result in America's military being the smallest it has been since before the start of World War II.
Aggrieved atheists, annoyed agnostics and others troubled by a Nativity display, Hanukkah menorah or a poster celebrating Eid al-Fitr at a U.S. military base, might now have a harder time succeeding.
U.S. national security officials say they have made important changes to their experiments on human subjects since a botched research project in 1953 led to a CIA scientist drugged with LSD falling to his death from a 13th-floor hotel window.
Punting on trying to pass a full year's appropriations bill will undercut U.S. security moves in Asia and hurt military recruiting when the services are struggling to persuade enough people to enlist, the nation's top general told lawmakers this week.