No other European countries have signed up to US-led mission to ‘uphold international navigation’
Britain is to join a mission with the US to protect oil tankers in the Gulf from seizure by Iran, but London has said no other European countries have so far been persuaded to sign up.
Exclusive: the high altitude balloons promise a cheap surveillance platform that could follow multiple cars and boats for extended periods
The US military is conducting wide area surveillance tests across six midwest states using experimental high-altitude balloons, documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reveal.
Trump has criticized bid process for the cloud-computing contract as potentially biased toward Amazon
The US department of defense says the defense secretary, Mark Esper, is reviewing the bid process for the military’s $10bn cloud-computing contract.
Donald Trump has criticized the process, citing complaints from other companies, as potentially biased toward Amazon. The e-commerce giant and Microsoft have been competing for the contract, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure plan, or Jedi.
The government and its foreign allies have taken more civilian lives than the Taliban and others this year. A deal is needed to end America’s longest-running conflict – but not a botch job
Warren Kanders is the chairman and CEO of Safariland, a company that sells military gear including teargas canisters
Warren Kanders, vice-chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s board of directors, has resigned after months of mounting protest over his company’s manufacture and distribution of military products.
‘Many of the soldiers who died in the Korean war were teenagers, killed in their first two or three weeks of battle. Their corpses were never buried or identified’
The former army veteran and lobbyist will face brewing tensions with Iran and leadership turmoil at the Pentagon
Mark Esper, an army veteran and former defense industry lobbyist, was sworn in as the US secretary of defense after receiving Senate confirmation on Tuesday.
Esper’s confirmation, by a vote of 90-8, comes after a seven-month vacancy in the post. He was sworn in hours later at the White House by the supreme court justice Samuel Alito in a ceremony attended by Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has said that a US warship destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz, amid heightened tensions between the two countries.
More than a million people have actually RSVP’d – and the military have issued a serious response.
