Task & Purpose

The U.S. military has “probably used” one-half to two-thirds of its missile defense interceptors in its war with Iran, a congressional report found. The report’s authors warned the diminished stockpile could hamstring U.S. efforts if it had to defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion.

The dire warnings about the U.S. munitions were included in a

The mission statement for the United States’ military’s ongoing war with Iran — one that has lasted months, left hundreds of service members injured and 18 dead — is not only shrouded in mystery but classified.

In the Pentagon’s first full accounting of the Iran war, the Defense Department’s Office of the Inspector General

The Space Force currently has “space control weapons” in orbit, Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink revealed today. His remarks are the first time the U.S. military has publicly acknowledged putting offensive capabilities into orbit.

Meink was delivering a keynote address at the Air & Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference at National Har...

Former Marine Joseph Barna carried the memory of the Navy corpsman who saved his life and the lives of many other Marines during vicious fighting in the Korean War. In interviews and a book he later wrote on corpsmen who served in the war, Barna told the story of a deep stab wound he suffered and the sailor who pulled him into a hut to stitch it closed.

“I was bleed...

Before sunrise on Sept. 11, Pfc. Ocean K. Winfrey, a 27-year-old Army basic trainee, was on foot along Interstate 44 just outside Fort Sill, Oklahoma, when he was struck and