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The U.S. Navy takes corrosion issues affecting its new Littoral Combat Ships seriously, Congress is told, but does not believe the problems threaten the program.
Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter has been nominated by the president to become the next deputy defense secretary, replacing William Lynn, according to the White House.
The Senate Armed Services Committee approved Army Gen. Martin Dempsey's nomination to become the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Aug. 2, as well as five other top military officer billets.
Japan voiced concern Tuesday over China's growing assertiveness and widening naval reach and over what it called the "opaqueness" of Beijing's military budget.
America's top military officer says U.S. troops must be given immunity from prosecution as part of any deal to keep them in Iraq beyond the end of the year.
Bad news in America's proxy war against al Qaeda-allied Somali insurgents: Half of the U.S.-supplied weaponry meant for cash-strapped African troops fighting al-Shabab is winding up in al-Shabab's hands.
South Korea's first airborne early warning and control system aircraft, the so-called "flying command post," has arrived at an air base in South Gyeongsang Province from Boeing in Seattle.
The United States and Vietnam on Aug. 1 opened their first formal military relationship since their war, another sign of growing cooperation amid high tensions between Hanoi and China.
Right on schedule, a year after the Pentagon announced plans to close the U.S. Joint Forces Command, it will hold a disestablishment ceremony on Thursday.