The Pentagon will create a working group that in the next six months will consider the issue of granting the right to transgender people to serve openly in the armed forces. US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced this on Monday. “The Ministry of Defense will create...
Over the next two years, the Pentagon intends to cut 40 soldiers and officers, according to American media. Thus, by the end of 2017, the staffing of the US Army will be reduced to about 450 thousand troops. In addition to this, the Pentagon is going to cut 17 thousand ...
The Pentagon plans to cut 40 ground forces over the next two years. USA Today reported this. “The Army Command plans to cut 40 thousand military personnel over the next two years. The reduction will affect units located both within the country and abroad,”...
The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State extremist group is intensifying its campaign in Syria, US President Barack Obama said. “Our target is the leaders of the Islamic State and its infrastructure in Syria, the heart of ISIS, from where their funds are distributed throughout the world...
US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has pledged that Washington will oppose Moscow's attempts to restore the Soviet sphere of influence. As reported by the Associated Press, he stated this at the Berlin research center Atlantik Brucke, which deals with issues of German-American relations. “We don't want cold and ...
The United States is going to change its policy regarding the protection of homosexuals in the military in order to avoid any manifestation of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said that in the US military, discrimination based on sexual orientation would be equated with racial and ...
The Russian Defense Ministry has asked the Pentagon for clarification in connection with statements by the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Martin Dempsey, about the possibility of deploying ground-based missiles in Europe and Asia. According to the Ministry of Defense, such statements may indicate the intention of the United States to withdraw from the treaty on the elimination of short- and medium-range missiles. The department also emphasizes ...
The US military admitted on Wednesday that it had inadvertently sent samples of live anthrax spores to nine US states as well as a US Air Force base in South Korea. What states are in question is not specified. It is known that the disputes of this dangerous disease, ...
A new Department of Defense report has found that military and civilian Pentagon employees used government credit cards at casinos and other adult entertainment venues. During the period from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014, employees spent 952...
The Senate Armed Services Committee of the US Congress approved on Thursday the draft new US defense budget for fiscal 2016, which begins in the country on October 1. It provides for the allocation of military aid to Ukraine in the amount of $ 300 million. The draft defense budget, which ...