Defense

Dempsey says new Pentagon budget will balance past lessons, future threats

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will join the Defense Secretary on Thursday afternoon to announce plan details.

Defense

President touts bin Laden killing, end of Iraq war in speech

Obama opens and closes his address with references to security accomplishments.

Defense

Pentagon pulling two brigades from Europe

Move allows the Army to begin deploying forces on a rotational basis, a shift that has been expected.

Defense

U.S. formally ends Iraq war

Formal ceremony comes nearly nine years after invasion of the country aimed at toppling Saddam Hussein's dictatorship.

Defense

Joint Chiefs chairman reflects on Iraq as U.S. rushes to exit

Martin Dempsey says for people like him, 'Iraq was the defining element of the last 20 years of our career.'

Defense

Air Force will not inform families of landfill remains

Service says decision is in keeping with the families' wishes.

Defense

Investigators find 'gross mismanagement' of war remains at Dover AFB

A colonel and two civilian deputies were disciplined, but not fired, for alleged abuses between 2008 and 2010.

Defense

Pentagon explains Panetta’s warning that sequestration would cost 1.5 million jobs

Officials plugged some numbers into an established forecasting model and fed the data to a simulation of the U.S. economy hit with across-the-board spending cuts.