US Military Says Strikes on 3 Boats in the Eastern Pacific Ocean Kill 8 People The U.S. military says it has attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total...
Who Counts as a Combatant: The Law Governing Lawful Military Targets International law tightly limits who may be targeted in armed conflict. Civilians are protected from attack unless they...
Congress Tries to Pull War Powers Back From the White House After Venezuela-Linked Boat Strikes Congress is moving to force a War Powers vote after U.S. military strikes near Venezuela raise unresolved legal and factual...
Trump Administration Sued For Not Publicly Releasing Caribbean Boat Strike Records Three groups filed a legal complaint against the Trump administration today in Southern District of New York seeking the...
Congressional Lawmakers Hear From Retiring Navy Admiral Overseeing Boat Strikes The U.S. Navy admiral who is retiring early from command of the campaign to destroy vessels allegedly carrying drugs near...
Trump Says Survivors of Scrutinized US Strike Were Trying to Right Boat Before 2nd Missile Was Fired President Donald Trump is justifying the U.S. military's decision to fire a second missile in a heavily scrutinized U.S...
From Denial to Defiance: Hegseth and the Fallout of the Venezuelan Boat 'Double-Tap' The U.S. killed two unarmed survivors of a Venezuelan drug smuggling boat after an initial airstrike left them shipwrecked in...
Rubio and Hegseth Meet Australian Counterparts With China Expected to Be Focus Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are meeting their Australian counterparts for annual talks...
Key GOP Senator Says He Has No Objection to Releasing Video of Strike that Killed Two Survivors A video of a U.S. military strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean that killed two survivors of the initial attack...
Hegseth Defends Strikes on Alleged Cartel Boats, Says Trump Can Order Use of Force 'as He Sees Fit' Though Hegseth compared the alleged drug smugglers to Al-Qaida terrorists, experts have noted significant differences between...
The Recruiting Surge Was Engineered. Can It Last in a War with Iran? The military’s recruiting surge didn’t happen by accident. New programs drove gains, but as the war with Iran grows...
Could the US Bring Back the Draft? Who Would Be Called First — and Who Qualifies Could the U.S. bring back the draft? Here’s how Selective Service works today, who would be called first and why only about...
Army Speeds AI Warfighting Push as US Troops are in Active Combat An Army test used AI tools to hit 15 targets in one hour, signaling a rapid shift in how battlefield decisions are made and...
VA Study: Ozempic, Other GLP-1 Drugs May Fight Addiction Across Every Major Substance For the more than 48 million Americans with substance use disorders, including a disproportionate share of veterans, GLP-1...
After the Knock on the Door: How TAPS Supports Military Families for Life After a service member dies, families face a lifetime of grief. TAPS founder Bonnie Carroll explains how the organization...
![The closed entrance to a secure room is seen where Navy Adm. Frank "Mitch" Bradley, commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, is expected to brief top congressional lawmakers overseeing national security as they investigate how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth handled a military strike on a suspected drug smuggling boat and its crew in the Caribbean near Venezuela Sept. 2, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-12/ap25338467336200.jpg?itok=jqLlrzEA "The closed entrance to a secure room is seen where Navy Adm. Frank "Mitch" Bradley, commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, is expected to brief top congressional lawmakers overseeing national security as they investigate how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth handled a military strike on a suspected drug smuggling boat and its crew in the Caribbean near Venezuela Sept. 2, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)")
