Trump touts a $1 trillion defense budget, a $1,776 troop bonus and a tougher stance on Iran in his 2026 State of the Union.

Defense chief Pete Hegseth has threatened to force the company to lift guardrails against greater military use of AI.

The new director, Paul Craft, will "reorient" DOD schools toward "patriotic values and classical learning," Hegseth said.

This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 153. In September 2025 President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the Department of Defense to the 'Department of War', reverting ...

When workers at the Pentagon quietly removed “Department of Defense” plaques and replaced them with new bronze signs reading “Department of War,” the reaction was immediate. Photos of Defense ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’03 announced that the U.S. Department of Defense will end sponsorship of active-duty military students in graduate programs at Princeton University and other Ivy ...

There are some moral lines AI powerhouse Anthropic won't cross. Too bad the same can’t be said about OpenAI and other such firms.

At the heart of this dispute is how Anthropic’s large language model Claude is being used in a military context.

The Pentagon, CBP and the FAA said in a statement that the military mitigated "a seemingly threatening unmanned aerial system ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth finishes the installation of a Department of War plaque at the Pentagon, Nov. 13, 2025. (Staff Sgt. Madelyn Keech/Air Force) The Trump administration’s effort to rename ...

Florida Tech has been flagged by the Department of War as a 'moderate to high risk' school. Here's what that could mean for students.

Since the September day when President Donald Trump symbolically renamed the Department of Defense as the Department of War, the U.S. military has conducted at least 21 strikes on Venezuelan boats, ...