Зарубежные новости navytimes.com

WASHINGTON — With the possibility of another government shutdown coming Friday, the Pentagon is bracing for a potential delay to its planned fiscal 2020 rollout and the associated long-term fallout. Compared to the government agencies that may once again go dark, ...

Two U.S. destroyers steamed near islands in the increasingly contested South China Sea Monday as part of a continuing effort to counter Beijing's claim over those waters, officials confirmed. ...

The U.S. military should refine how it identifies and measures civilian casualties during combat operations, to include greater collaboration with humanitarian groups, according to a recently released Pentagon report. The report, ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans Monday to withdraw several hundred National Guard troops from the state's southern border with Mexico in defiance of the Trump administration's request for support from border states. ...

BEIJING — Here's the latest look at recent developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves. ...

Jesse Leroy Brown set his sights on flying when he was just a youngster working in Mississippi's corn and cotton fields. Growing up as the son of a sharecropper, whenever he spotted an airplane overhead, young Jesse would declare that someday he was going to be a pilot. ...

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers have until Friday to reach an agreement on funding a host of federal agencies through the rest of fiscal 2019 — or trigger another government shutdown. The shutdown threat will loom over all congressional business this week, ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. is considering what cuts to U.S. force levels could support peace negotiations in Afghanistan while balancing risk there, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Sunday. Shanahan made the surprise visit, his first since becoming acting defense secretary, ...

Navy officials have begun notifying 120 active-duty, full-time support and drilling reserve E-7 through E-9 sailors that they must retire by the end August. The decision to send these sailors home sprang from the 2019 Senior Enlisted Continuation Board that began meeting on Dec. 3 in Millington, ...

KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — A group of Peterson Elementary third-graders glimpsed snapshots of World War II history on Kodiak Island when they visited the Kodiak Military Museum at Fort Abercrombie State Historical Park on a crisp, clear Jan. 25 morning. ...

A former U.S. Pacific Fleet spokesman who moonlighted as a PR guru for 'Fat Leonard' Glenn Francis was sentenced to six months in prison Friday. Now-retired Navy Capt. Jeffrey Breslau also must pay a $20, ...

A San Diego-based sailor is facing court-martial for allegedly pointing an unloaded gun at a fellow sailor and pulling the trigger. Assigned to Beachmaster Unit 1, Gunner's Mate Seaman Apprentice Khali K. Lane, 20, was arraigned last month at Naval Base San Diego, according to court records. ...

The U.S. Attorney's office has granted testimonial immunity to seven SEALs tied to the war crimes case against Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward 'Eddie' Gallagher, who is accused of executing a wounded Islamic State prisoner in Iraq in 2017. ...

Put away your toy arc reactors and turn down that Black Sabbath song. It looks like the military is still a ways off from creating a functional Iron man suit. As far back as 2013, U.S. Special Operations Command began playing up its development of a Marvel-esque super-suit for close-quarters combat. ...

In his first appearance before Congress, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Russ Smith told lawmakers that sailors and their families need more child care services, improved infrastructure and continued funding to modernize the personnel system. While on Capital Hill, ...

The Veterans Affairs Department could soon provide free child care for veterans undergoing treatment for mental health and other medical issues — a move some lawmakers hope will make it easier for veterans to get help. ...

Navy personnel officials are pushing ahead on plans to hike the number of no-test, command-level advancements this year. Officially known as the 'Meritorious Advancement Program,' or MAP, the program has steadily increased in scope since it was plucked from the personnel system scrap heap in 2015. ...

Negotiations that would lead to a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan continue to advance, but are a long way from completion, the top U.S. envoy to U.S.-Taliban peace talks said Friday. ...

Steward William Tillman had been waiting for more than a week to take back his freedom after Confederate privateers from the ship Jeff Davis had captured and boarded his vessel, the schooner S.J. Waring, on July 7, 1861. ...

WASHINGTON — The House Veterans' Affairs Committee is launching an investigation into whether President Donald Trump's country club friends had undue influence over Veterans Affairs Department policies or violated any laws. In a letter to VA officials Friday, committee Chairman Mark Takano, D-Calif. ...