One United States service member and three defense contractors are dead after a small airplane crashed in the Philippines on Thursday, officials said. The aircraft was “providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance support” at the request of allies in the Philippines, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Public Affairs said in a news release. It was a routine mission…
President Trump signed multiple executive orders Monday night that could reshape the management and composition of the military, with provisions addressing diversity measures, transgender service members, and troops who were discharged for refusing COVID vaccinations. He also signed an executive order to establish a process to develop what the administration is calling an American Iron…
The Chinese intelligence officer who convinced Thomas Zhao to hand over sensitive information about the U.S. military seemed to know the 24-year-old U.S. Navy petty officer had a passion for the stock market. The agent approached Zhao in a stock trading chat group on the Chinese-owned social media network WeChat, CBS News learned in interviews…
A United States pilot who disappeared while conducting a spy mission during the Vietnam War has finally been accounted for, military officials said Tuesday. U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing was assigned to the 557th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 12th Tactical Fighter Wing, 7th Air Force in September 1967, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency…
Breaking down the U.S. military implications of Assad’s fall – CBS News Watch CBS News President-elect Donald Trump is now signaling that the U.S. military should not intervene in Syria, posting on social media over the weekend, “this is not our fight.” Charlie D’Agata has more on U.S. interests in Syria, which include hundreds of…
China deployed naval and air forces to track and follow a U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane as it transited Tuesday over the Taiwan Strait, the Chinese military said, amid simmering tension between the two superpowers over the fate of the self-ruled island of Taiwan. Colonel Cao Jun, a spokesperson for the Chinese army’s Eastern Theater Command Air…
London — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in London this week to discuss progress made by the U.S., Britain and Australia toward their shared goal of deterring China’s increasingly assertive actions in the Indo-Pacific. The London summit is the third Defense Ministerial for the allies’ trilateral AUKUS partnership, and according to defense officials, it will…