Category: Military and War

Dan Driscoll handed President Trump his resignation on Monday, closing an 18-month run as Secretary of the Army that opened with one of the friendlier confirmation votes of the second term and ended in a losing internal fight. The break was not over Iran, or the budget, or anything an enemy did. It was over…

Iranian missiles came down on two American bases in Jordan late Sunday night, and by Monday afternoon President Donald Trump had said plainly what he intends to do about it. The barrage followed by hours a U.S. strike that destroyed a pair of Iranian rocket launchers on an island inside the Strait of Hormuz. Nearly…

The clock the White House started in Islamabad ran out on Monday. The memorandum of understanding that Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed remotely on June 17 gave the two governments 60 days to turn a ceasefire into a permanent settlement, and the deadline arrived with no negotiations underway, no deal in sight,…

President Donald Trump has never been shy about claiming a win, and on Monday he claimed one of the biggest of his second term: total command of the Strait of Hormuz. Standing in the Oval Office, the president told reporters the United States now controls the world’s most important oil chokepoint “100 percent,” describing the…

The Pentagon has finally put a number on how long President Donald Trump intends to keep soldiers on the streets of the nation’s capital, and on what it will cost to do it. The answer is January 2029 and roughly $1.4 billion, and it arrived not in a press conference but in a written answer…

President Donald Trump spent Saturday evening telling the country that a five-month war might be winding down. In a social media post, he said Mideast allies had reached the parameters of a deal that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end Iran’s nuclear threat, and that he had therefore agreed to cancel a strike…

The War Department has signed an agreement to bring Elon Musk’s xAI and its Grok chatbot onto the military’s internal AI platform, GenAI.mil, with initial deployment targeted for early 2026. The deal, which carries a $200 million ceiling, has already drawn sharp criticism from at least one U.S. senator over procurement concerns and the chatbot’s…

Oil prices held relatively flat on Friday as President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged that he is weighing a limited military strike on Iran, even as Tehran signaled it would soon present a nuclear proposal to Washington. The simultaneous threat of force and diplomatic outreach created a tug-of-war in energy markets, with crude benchmarks climbing modestly…

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on February 17, 2026, that Canada will pour hundreds of billions of dollars into defense spending, with a deliberate emphasis on building domestic manufacturing capacity and reducing the country’s deep reliance on American military suppliers. The plan represents one of the most significant defense procurement shifts in Canadian history, aiming…

War Secretary Pete Hegseth is trying to do something unusual in Washington: admit that the Pentagon itself has been a terrible customer for American industry, then use that confession as political cover to rip up the rules that made it so. His promise to revive dormant factories and rebuild the defense industrial base is wrapped…