Documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.

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The United States sent another B-52 bomber over the Middle East this week – the third sortie this month – after the aircraft carrier USS Truman returned to the Red Sea.

At the same time, Republican lawmakers are aiming to add more than $100 billion to the Pentagon’s proposed budget, which would push military spending close to $1 trillion a year.

The Pentagon’s books are a mess, and D.O.G.E just ripped the lid off one of the biggest financial disasters in government history. The Department of Defense (DoD) lost track of $824 billion last year,

Officials at the Defense Department’s Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, which seeks to limit collateral damage from military strikes against enemy combatants, were told to accept a buyout or be fired.

Relatedly, Trump’s active-duty troop deployments to the U.S.-Mexico border region will cost somewhere between $1 billion and $2 billion this year, and—if past is prologue —the deployments may have already hurt unit readiness, CQ Roll Call reported Tuesday, citing Democratic Sen. Jack Reed, ranking member on the Armed Services Committee.

Start-up Scale AI will develop AI tools for the Pentagon to help commanders plan military movements, using technology from Microsoft and Anduril.

Since first seeking the White House in 2016, Trump has voiced support for boosting U.S. military power, coopting the “peace through strength” mantra Reagan used to explain how the military buildup he spearheaded fit into his comprehensive strategy for defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War.

The Pentagon is sending up to 5,050 additional troops to the U.S.-Mexico border even as unlawful border crossings have sharply fallen in recent weeks. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a

The Department of Defense is denying reports Secretary Pete Hegseth halted offensive cyber operations against Russia. “TO BE CLEAR: @SecDef has neither canceled nor delayed any cyber

The defense secretary’s instructions, which were given before President Trump’s blowup with the Ukrainian president, are apparently part of an effort to draw Russia into talks on the war.