The raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was a tactical success, but it also raises the possibility of ...

During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a ...

The effort, which lasted four days, is the most extensive one conducted by the U.S. since it began attacks on alleged drug ...

A Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet and a tow tractor fell off the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman on Monday while it was at sea, the service announced. All personnel are accounted for, and one sailor ...

A retired Green Beret now in Congress wants to ban a chain of supplement and nutrition supply stores from military bases because of ties to Chinese owners. With a bill titled the “Military ...

Merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Task & Purpose team: It's been quite a year, and we're glad we got to share it with you.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that the standards for combat arms jobs must be “based solely on the operational demands of the occupation and the readiness needed to confront any adversary ...

A former Army captain who was on the run for almost five years after fleeing a court-martial for sexually abusing his daughter was found hiding at his mother’s house last week. Christopher Wilkinson, ...

Jackie Talarico said her family spent thousands of dollars trying to constantly clean up mold when they lived in privatized military housing at Naval Air Station Key West, Florida, where her husband ...

The Army plans to test 3D-printed drones next month during an exercise in Poland to see if the service can mass produce its own small unmanned aerial systems at a much lower cost than the defense ...

The mother of the sailor who inspired a law that overhauled mental health access in the military says she wants to sit down with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to discuss military suicides. “We ...

A U.S. Marine signals to an F-35B Lightning II deployed with VMFA-225 in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, Nov. 6, 2025. Marine Corps photo Lance Cpl. Michael Gavin. The U.S. military could be poised to launch the ...