Tuesday’s terror attacks in Belgium reinforce the need for a broad coalition effort to defeat ISIS, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said. Twin bombings in Brussels killed at least 31, and injured dozens at the Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station....
An Air Force lieutenant colonel and his family were injured in the attack at the Brussels airport, the service announced. The airman is assigned to NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum in the Netherlands. “We are saddened by today’s attacks...
Rose Gottemoeller, undersecretary of state for arms control and security, said she was “disturbed” by Russia’s recent “nuclear saber rattling,” saying it’s “simply unwarranted and doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.” Former Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov on March 19 said,...
Although the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the United States and Russia doesn’t expire until 2021, a senior State Department official said she already is “urging” her Russian counterparts to think about “what comes next.” The treaty, known...
The Air Force’s nuclear missile alert force was operated entirely by women on March 22 in honor of Women’s History Month. Missile crews at Air Force Global Strike Command’s three missile bases consisted entirely of women, with all-female B-52 aircrews...
The House of Representative on March 22 unanimously passed a bill to allow Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) introduced the bill to overturn a 2015 decision by the Secretary...
The key to a capable cyber force is “good people,” Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. The Pentagon requested a department-wide $7 billion increase in cyber capabilities in Fiscal 2017 and $35 billion over...
USAF aircraft are flying alongside the Royal Australian Air Force, French Air Force, and Navy jets from the USS Harry S. Truman during the first Air Force Central Command-led Desert Flag exercise, which kicked off on March 13 at an...
The Navy must have an unmanned capability on its carriers soon and must not be afraid to fail as it develops its future aviation capabilities, the service’s director of air warfare said during an AFA Mitchell Institute event in Arlington,...
