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The US military is preparing to conduct another test of a missile-intercept system in Alaska, the Pentagon said Monday, amid continued tensions with North Korea over its ballistic missile program.
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It is every Alaskan's nightmare: finding themselves within range of a North Korean missile. As that fear came one step closer to reality this week, America's ability to block an incoming attack is under scrutiny.
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Donald Trump's administration has approved $1.3 billion worth of arms sales to Taiwan, a US government official said Thursday, in a move likely to provoke the ire of Beijing which considers the island a rebel province.
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Washington will host two of China's most senior officials Wednesday to deepen the dialogue between the world's greatest powers and test Beijing's willingness to turn the screw on North Korea.
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US President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States remained committed to NATO's mutual defense pledge, after he failed to endorse it in a speech in Brussels last month.
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US President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States is committed to the NATO treaty's crucial Article Five mutual defense pledge.
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US President Donald Trump told Japanese leader Shinzo Abe Washington will continue to build its military capabilities to defend against a North Korean attack, the White House said.
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US President Donald Trump set human rights scandals aside to welcome Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to the White House on Monday, the first such visit from an Egyptian president in almost a decade.
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US President Donald Trump meets his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Washington on Monday, welcoming a strongman leader who has faced harsh criticism for his human rights record.
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US President Donald Trump unleashed a diatribe against Germany on Saturday, saying Berlin owes NATO "vast sums of money" and must pay the United States more for security.
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President Donald Trump is facing his biggest foreign policy challenge yet after North Korea fired a ballistic missile salvo in a supposed training run for an attack on US bases in Japan.
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The US military has begun deploying an anti-ballistic missile defense system to South Korea, following a string of missile tests by North Korea, the US Pacific Command said Monday.
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Lieutenant General HR McMaster is best known for his pointedly titled book "Dereliction of Duty," which blames the jumbled views and weak fighting commitment of US political and military leaders for failure in the Vietnam War.
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Leaders of the Islamic State group are leaving their Syrian stronghold of Raqa, fleeing in the face of the Arab-Kurd offensive backed by the international coalition, the US Defense Department said Friday.
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The UN Security Council on Monday unanimously condemned North Korea's latest ballistic missile test as US President Donald Trump vowed to deliver a strong response to the provocation.
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The United States is certain it can defend itself from an attack by North Korea, the Defense Department said Tuesday after Pyongyang warned it was close to test launching a ballistic missile.
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The US-led international coalition battling to defeat the Islamic State group is not backing a drive by Turkish forces and Syrian rebels to retake a jihadist stronghold in northern Syria, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
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The United States is continuing to reinforce its military forces in Europe as planned, irrespective of President-elect Donald Trump's future intentions, the Pentagon said Thursday.
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Argentina said Friday it has lodged an "emphatic protest" against British plans to hold military exercises in the disputed Falkland Islands, renewing an old feud after a recent thaw.
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The United States is investing in a military air base capable of deploying drones in Niger's central city of Agadez, the Pentagon confirmed.
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The US military has suspended air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq from a base in southern Turkey, a US official said.
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North Korea may be able to develop a submarine-based ballistic missile within a year, which would significantly increase the threat Pyongyang poses, a US expert said Wednesday.
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Two US military aerobatic planes crashed in separate incidents, one occurring shortly after flying over a speech by President Barack Obama and the other resulting in a death.
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Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will appeal his UN war crimes court conviction for genocide, his legal adviser said Thursday."Dr Karadzic is disappointed and astonished.
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Turkish warplanes repeatedly entered Greek airspace on Monday, the state ANA news agency said, as NATO prepared to deploy ships to the Aegean Sea against migrant smugglers.
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The US military wants to send a sophisticated missile defense system to South Korea "as quickly as possible," the Pentagon said Monday as it seeks to counter an ever-defiant North Korea.
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The Pentagon is going to develop two prototypes of machines that can destroy chemical weapons on the spot and avoid the complex logistics of transporting such arsenals.
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US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter will visit his European counterparts this week to take stock of cooperation with NATO in the wake of Russian aggression in Crimea and Ukraine.
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According to a recent report, Saudi Arabia surpassed India as the leading importer of arms in 2014. The U.S. kept its spot as the top exporter of arms, bolstered by exports to Middle Eastern countries concerned about increased instability in the region.
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Japan, which for 70 years since the end of World War 2, has restrained itself from aggression or building a full-scale army, has now changed its policy and is willing to sell weapons to certain countries.
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LEADERSHIP: U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (left) holds a press conference Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem last May. Hagel announced his resignation today. Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo/Wikimedia Commons
Boeing C-17A Globemaster III. Brian Digital/flickr
The US Defense Department plans to eventually own more than 2,000 of these F-35 fighter planes, shown here landing after a test flight at Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California, and sell hundreds to allies. Sr. Airman Julius Delos Reyes-US Air Force/Wikimedia Commons
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates addresses the audience during the 2010 National Scout Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill, Va. US Department of Defense
Discretionary spending for FY2011. Chart courtesy National Priorities Project, Inc.
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A stained lymphocyte surrounded by red blood cells viewed using a light microscope. Mgiganteus
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A French Pluton short-range tactical ballistic nuclear missile (SRBM), installed on an AMX-30 tank. Wikicommons
5th Japan-Australia Foreign and Defence Ministerial Consultations (June 11, 2014, Tokyo) JAPAN Ministry of Defense
Lincoln Labs at MIT developed the "through-wall ultrawideband radar" system that can see through buildings; this picture shows the system elements from the back. Lincoln Labs, MIT
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter - Next Generation Fighter Capability DND/Lockheed Martin Corporation
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