After resisting calls for public hearings for weeks, House Republicans have called the secretary of defense to testify at a budget hearing in late April for the first time since the attacks on Iran began.
Sightings of drones around Fort McNair, the Army base where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio live, have prompted consideration of deploying the new technology.
The LOCUST, an anti-drone laser system that has been used recently along the border with Mexico, may be deployed in Washington to help protect the military base where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio reside.
Barely out of prototype testing, the Precision Strike Missile is shrouded in secrecy — including which Persian Gulf countries the Army is launching them from.
The Pentagon used missiles untested in combat in a deadly attack that struck civilian sites near a military compound on Feb. 28, according to visual evidence examined by The Times and weapons experts.
The U.S.S. Tripoli entering the Singapore Strait earlier this month. The 2,500 Marines who have been dispatched to the Middle East are part of the U.S.S. Tripoli amphibious ready group.
President Trump has vacillated between boasting about U.S. military superiority and deep frustration that his war of choice is not always having the desired effects.
The Trump administration said the Middle East would “recede” in importance as the China challenge took priority. But the president started the war in Iran.
The war with Iran is costing America. That money, the Opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof argues, could be better spent ending childhood malnutrition, screening for cancer or providing free college tuition.
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