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The Pentagon is considering a range of options to meet a bipartisan call to greatly reduce defense spending in what is a "perfect storm" rocking the military's once-sturdy budget plans.
China's first aircraft carrier "attained the anticipated objectives" during its maiden sea trial earlier this month, the country's defense ministry said.
The national budget crisis could force the U.S. Marine Corps to start cutting the force as soon as next fall, and below the 186,800-troop end strength some have pushed to maintain after the war in Afghanistan.
A California congressman opposed to allowing gays to serve openly in the military is drafting legislation to protect the rights of straight service members who object to gays' presence.
A team of Turkey and Germany is seeking to sell two HDW 209-type diesel submarines to Indonesia, worth about $1 billion, in a competition against South Korea, a Turkish official said
Iran has dispatched a submarine and a warship to the Red Sea on a patrol mission, navy commander Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said in a report by state media on Aug. 30.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, and Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced Aug. 30 the next step in the creation of a public-private partnership to develop drop-in advanced biofuels.
The VA is booting three businesses from its sprawling campus a few miles from the ocean as it tries to counter accusations that it puts commercial interests ahead of housing homeless veterans