David Axe, The National Interest

The U.S. military's growing fleet of F-35 stealth fighters will fall short of the 80 percent readiness goal that former Defense Secretary James Mattis instituted, former Secretary of the Army...

The 2016 naval incident was embarrassing to the U.S. Navy and its new river patrol force. Three years later, the riverine squadrons have new Mark VI boats and a new...

The Joint Chiefs of Staff briefly published the Pentagon's official doctrine on the use of nuclear weapons before quickly pulling the document — Joint Publication 3-72, Nuclear Operations — from...

The Chinese military is working on becoming technically superior to the U.S. military by 2049.

The Army is planning to test jam-resistant GPS systems in Europe as a potential step toward countering Russian electronic warfare

If you want to beat stealth, you need to fight stealth

The U.S. Navy's newest aircraft carrier won't be able to deploy with the service's newest warplane. At least not at first — and Congress is unhappy about that

Alpha Company of the Royal Marines' 40 Commando and their robot guardians stormed a beach in Cornwall in southwest England as part of Exercise Commando Warrior

Just six littoral combat ships were deployable in 2019, a low readiness rate calls into question the wisdom of the Navy's investment in the type

The U.S. Navy should consider using robot surface vessels to shuttle supplies from ship to shore in the aftermath of an amphibious assault by U.S. Marines, a retired Navy officer...

A private company in Texas has acquired scores of old French fighter jets to expand its adversary operation, which simulates the "red air" enemy force in U.S. and allied war...

The U.S. Coast Guard on April 23, 2019 tapped VT Halter Marine, Inc. to build, for $750 million, the service's first new heavy icebreaker in four decades.

Gen. Tod Wolters, the commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa and President Donald Trump's nominee to lead U.S. European Command, argues that  "you always want...

The Army has begun shopping around for a robotic armored vehicle that can replace some of the branch's old M-2 Bradley manned fighting vehicles

Undeterred by decades of failure, the U.S. Army is trying again to acquire a new scout helicopter

The U.S. Navy is proposing soon to decommission six of its 22 Ticonderoga-class cruisers. The 1980s-vintage ships, the largest surface combatants in the U.S. fleet, increasingly are suffering structural problems...

The U.S. Army has revealed its newest tank

Suicide drones aren't just for terror groups anymore.

Eleven Russian bombers in early 2018 flew a mock attack on a Norwegian radar site, Lt. Gen. Morten Haga Lunde, the director of Norway's intelligence service, revealed in early February...

Sixty-seven years after the U.S. Air Force received its last B-52 from Boeing, the flying branch finally has firmed up plans to fit the heavy bomber with new engines

In 2016 RAND war-gamed a Russian invasion of the Baltics. In RAND's scenario, the Russian forces quickly overrun lightly-armed NATO forces. The Western alliance quickly deploys helicopters and air-mobile troops...

In contrast to the Kremlin's previous, abortive effort to field a killer drone, this latest effort appears likely to produce a useful, front-line aircraft

Cheaper to build than today ship's and expendable, the unmanned vessels could help the Navy quickly to grow — and could allow the fleet to develop new tactics for battling...

By 2020 North Korea could possess as many as 100 nuclear warheads, according to a January 2019 report from the RAND Corporation

A non-nuclear war between NATO and Russia could pit bombers, aircraft carriers and submarines against each other along Europe's cold northern … Continued