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Gen. Mark Milley met with his Ukrainian counterpart for the first time in Poland, near the border with Ukraine.

WASHINGTON — A recently enacted income supplement for low-ranking U.S. troops, put in place primarily to alleviate food insecurity in the ranks, will help fewer than 1% of the estimated scores of thousands of hungry U.S. military families, according to Pentagon figures.

The U.S. military has entered 2023 amid its largest recruiting crisis since the end of the Vietnam War, with the possibility of being short thousands of new recruits. This year’s National Defense Authorization Act cut the Army’s size by 30,000 personnel, and the Pentagon is employing multiple methods to improve…

Congress has given the Defense Department until the end of January to look into whether bureaucrats are overusing a document designation known as "Controlled Unclassified Information" to keep the public from learning about bad news.

During his visit to Washington, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Biden and addressed a joint meeting of Congress.

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to pass the final defense authorization bill for fiscal 2023, clearing the sweeping measure for President Joe Biden’s signature.

The Senate voted overwhelmingly to pass the final defense authorization bill for fiscal 2023, clearing the measure for Biden's signature.

Lawmakers are seeking to end the Defense Department’s extensive use of unfunded priorities lists to increase the Pentagon’s budget.

The COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the U.S. military would be rescinded under the annual defense bill heading for a vote this week in Congress