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China on Friday named two senior military officers to head a garrison in the South China Sea, days after calling the island community the country's newest city.
The yearly price tag to carry out the U.S. Navy's latest 30-year shipbuilding plan comes to about $20 billion, a new congressional report said, more than $3 billion a year above the Navy's projections.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will head to the Middle East next week and is expected to speak with Israeli and Jordanian officials about the conflict in Syria and worries about Iran.
The Pentagon has reached an agreement with Lockheed Martin Corp. on a $450 million program to enhance electronic warfare equipment on the F-35 fighter jet, and integrate Israeli-unique systems beginning in 2016.
Mali, a country bloodied by a violent coup in March, has become a greater focus of U.S. counterterrorism attention, a Department of Defense official said Thursday.
Recent national security leaks have put lives at risk and require an effective crackdown, the head of the Special Operations Command Admiral William McRaven says.
A Marine Corps Harrier attack jet crashed while on a training mission Wednesday in southwestern Arizona and base officials said the pilot ejected safely.