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The Pentagon is on lockdown after multiple gunshots were fired on a Metro Bus platform near the building.

The Biden Pentagon announced late Thursday it is now requiring that service members divulge whether they have been vaccinated or not.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin landed in the Philippines during his weeklong trip to East Asia on Thursday, wearing a face shield as he exited the plane and greeted Filipino officials.

President Joe Biden on Thursday will announce millions of federal workers must prove they have received a coronavirus vaccine or be forced to submit to regular government testing, stringent social distancing, masking, and travel restrictions.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called out anti-Asian American discrimination in the United States during a trip to East Asia this week to reassure allies and partners.

The Pentagon last month quietly updated its policy on masks to allow unmasked troops to be asked for proof of their vaccination status.

Milley dodged reporters’ questions on whether he actually feared then-President Donald Trump wanted to stage a coup.

(AFP) — The U.S. and French defence chiefs signed a new “roadmap” for cooperation between their special operations forces Friday as both seek to build international efforts to counter non-state threats like Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.

Pelosi bought Amazon calls just before the Pentagon canceled a contract with Microsoft and started a new one that could benefit the company.

The Pentagon’s top spokesman said the department’s leaders will look into making COVID-19 vaccines mandatory once they are FDA-approved.

The DOD announced it had canceled its multi-billion contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) Cloud.

Looters ransacked an air base in Afghanistan after the U.S. military handed control of it over to the Afghan government on Friday.

An essay published in the Nation on Friday accuses Americans celebrating independence of failing to “reckon with the fact that the founders of our nation were colonizers,” with American “exceptionalism” and foreign policy being “grounded in racism,” adding that issues such as climate change and “racist policing” are the “greatest existential threats” while global terrorism and threats from China, Russia, and Iran, are merely “imagined threats.”

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) this week revealed several instances where service members were forced to classify themselves by race and socio-economic status during diversity and inclusion training.

Former President Donald Trump slammed the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Mark Milley, in a statement Wednesday, calling on him to resign and disputing an allegation in a book that Milley yelled at him in the Situation Room.

National Guard colonel and Green Beret Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) warned the Biden administration that they will have “blood on their hands” if they do not evacuate Afghan interpreters who helped American troops from Afghanistan as the war winds down.

The government of Iraq condemned President Joe Biden on Monday for bombing sites within the country, and within Syria, to allegedly combat the threat of Iran-backed militias in the area.

An adviser to the Pentagon’s Counter-Extremism Working Group (CEWG) is warning the Biden administration’s efforts to purge the military of “extremists” could violate individual First Amendment rights.

Waltz pushed back against the idea that learning critical race theory is akin to learning “history” and that opposing it makes one racist.

Milley stoked controversy on the right and left after he defended studying critical race theory as a way to understand “white rage.”

Biden Pentagon leaders lashed out at Republican lawmakers who grilled them on the teaching of critical race theory in the military.

Congressman Dan Crenshaw said he will soon begin rolling out examples of woke ideology spreading in the United States military.

The Pentagon does not yet have a definition of what “extremism” is but is working “quite hard” to define it, according to officials.

Waltz sent a second letter to the West Point superintendent requesting information about critical race theory being taught on campus.

Austin said although he did not think the military is “fundamentally racist,” there is a focus on “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

Biden claimed the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told him climate change was the “greatest threat” facing America.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) expressed concern Thursday that a Biden administration executive order that changed Trump-era rules on U.S. investment in Chinese companies would give too much authority to a Treasury Department “too closely aligned with Wall Street.”

The Biden administration’s $715B defense budget for 2022 proposes spending about $30M on top of spending $9.1M in 2021 to combat “extremism.”

The Pentagon did not deny a recent report that U.S. special operations forces are in Taiwan helping train their counterparts.

The Pentagon on Tuesday defended the department’s diversity and inclusion efforts rolled out during the Biden administration, characterizing it as a matter of defending the nation.

While reflecting on the purpose of Memorial Day, Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) told Breitbart News Americans who lost their lives in armed conflicts are “sewn into the fabric of America.”

The annual Rolling to Remember event, which is organized by AMVETS and gathers thousands of motorcycles and spectators to honor POW-MIA veterans, is set to kick off in Washington, DC, at 12 p.m. EST.

The Chinese military has been ignoring requests from the Pentagon for its top leaders to speak for the first time since taking office.

Thirty House Republicans sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday, warning him that creeping left-wing extremism and politicization is jeopardizing the United States military’s status as one of the nation’s most respected institutions.

Cruz fired back at Democrats and “woke media” claiming he attacked the military when he criticized the Army’s latest recruitment campaign.

Two dozen Republican lawmakers, led by Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), are calling on the acting Air Force secretary to reinstate the Air Force lieutenant colonel who was fired from his job at Space Force after warning Marxism was spreading within the military.