U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said Sunday that Iran is "controlled by a bunch of crazy people," as the Trump administration contended with a third round of military strikes against Tehran and Iran's attempt to close the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping.
The Marine Corps announced Tuesday it will create a new primary military occupational specialty for battlefield scouts, formalizing a reconnaissance role that had previously existed only as an additional qualification.
The document is 221 pages long, dated April 6, and was never supposed to be public. It's an annual assessment required by Congress -- but never released by the Pentagon or the command itself -- until The Washington Times obtained a copy and published what's inside.
The U.S. military will hold its current force posture in the Middle East throughout the 60-day negotiation window opened by the new memorandum of understanding with Iran, senior Trump administration officials confirmed Monday.
The U.S. military struck a drug-trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Wednesday, killing two men it described as narco-terrorists, U.S. Southern Command said Thursday.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Trump administration a split decision, ruling 2-to-1 that while the administration can bar new transgender recruits from joining the military, it cannot force out the service members who are already serving.
The United States Army hit its recruiting goals for 2026 four months early, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared during a commencement speech at the United States Military Academy in West Point.
Two U.S. Marine Corps Osprey aircraft flew over the American Embassy in Caracas on Saturday and landed in the parking lot, conducting the first military rapid-response exercise at the facility since elite U.S. forces captured former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in January.
Three Senate Democrats filed a war powers resolution Thursday seeking to strip President Trump of the ability to use military force against Cuba without congressional authorization, drawing sharp pushback from Republicans who say the move would shield a regime that murdered American citizens.
