This new zone expands the military's operational reach along the southern border. Critics argue this militarization misrepresents the situation, as border crossings are declining. The Pentagon has ...

As President Trump expands the use of the military in immigration enforcement, this nearly 150-year-old law has come into sharp focus. The Posse Comitatus Act was designed to limit the use of ...

President Trump issued a memorandum Friday authorizing the military to take control of federal lands along the southern border to combat illegal immigration and drug smuggling. “Our southern ...

That’s not all. The military has also dispatched U-2 spy planes, surveillance drones, helicopters and even two Navy warships to surveil the borders and coasts round the clock. The buildup of ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Monday that the U.S. military will soon be seeing a dramatic reduction in the number of general officers across all branches. He called the reduction a ...

Commanders across the U.S. military face a terrible choice, now that the Supreme Court has greenlighted President Trump’s purge of transgender service members from the ranks. One choice is to ...

And though spending in South Korea went up only 1.4% in 2024, Seoul has the “highest military burden in East Asia,” at 2.6% of GDP, the institute said. Taiwan, an island democracy of some 23 ...

Global military expenditure rose by 9.4% in 2024 to $2.7 trillion, the steepest yearly rise since the end of the Cold War, according to data compiled by the global security think tank Stockholm ...

From 2005 to 2023, the number of women serving active-duty roles in the U.S. military rose by 12%, while the number of men fell by more than 10%, according to Pentagon data. A third of active-duty ...