Hegseth orders the military to detail dozens of attorneys to the Justice Department, AP learns

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to provide dozens of lawyers to the Justice Department for temporary ...

Defense Department takes steps to fire civilian employees with 'speed and conviction'

A day before the federal government shut down this month, a senior Pentagon official signed a memo that could make it easier ...
The New York Times

Venezuela Announces Sweeping Military Exercises as U.S. Escalates Pressure

President Nicolás Maduro this week called on civilians to help the country defend itself, while his defense minister warned citizens to “prepare for the worst.” By Genevieve Glatsky Venezuela’s ...
WUNC

Amid federal cutbacks, a college program to train Pentagon civilian workers faces uncertainty

It's obviously a low point for federal employment. The Trump Administration is laying off thousands of people amid the government shutdown, which came on the heels of a hiring freeze, the DOGE-powered ...
WFMZ-TV

The Hegseth Hazard: Keep Politics out of Defense

Pete Hegseth is both the Secretary of Defense and a partisan provocateur. That combination is perilous. It undermines legal guardrails intended to prevent political partisanship from infecting ...
Defense News

Army expands MOS program that allows soldiers to skip certain training

Recruits who meet certain skill requirements are eligible to go into the service with modified training and at a higher rank ...
Foreign Policy

Civilian Tech Is Powering China’s Military

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Capital Gazette

What happens at Naval Academy in a shutdown? Half the faculty disappears

Under the looming threat of a federal government shutdown this week, we asked: How would that affect midshipmen and general operations at the U.S. Naval Academy? A shutdown would force active-duty ...
The Washington Post

Hegseth to upend troops’ access to watchdog, whistleblower complaints

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he will overhaul the military channels that allow troops and defense personnel to file whistleblower complaints, report toxic leadership or point out discrimination ...
UPI

Denmark closes airspace to civilian drones amid rise in sightings

Sept. 29 (UPI) --Denmark will ban all civilian drones beginning Monday over safety concerns as Copenhagen prepares to host an EU summit on European defense. Transport Minister Thomas Danielsen ...
Defense One

More than 60K defense civilians have left under Hegseth—but officials are mum on the effects

Nine months into the second Trump administration, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s effort to shrink and reshape the Pentagon’s civilian workforce has netted a reduction of more than 60,000 employees, ...
War on the Rocks

NATO’s Air Defense Dilemma

The obvious question is why Russian drones and aircraft have suddenly begun flying into NATO airspace. The Kremlin has been coy, simply announcing that it was not intending to attack targets in Poland ...