The US military wants to add thousands more troops as recruiting rebounds and rising global demands stretch the force.

Last year, Congress approved a total end strength of 1,302,800 active duty troops, which added 26,000 troops to the force across the five branches. The final breakdown was: 454,000 soldiers; 344,600 sailors; 321,500 airmen; 172,300 Marines; 10,400 guardians.

U.S. military officials are calling for spending tens of billions of dollars in the next budget year on drones, air defense systems and fighter jets that have been a key part of fighting the Iran war.

U.S. military launches new autonomous warfare command under SOUTHCOM to deploy unmanned systems in Latin America targeting narcoterrorist networks.

The US Army announced this week that it has successfully 3D-printed a drone-based warhead prototype, and successfully used that weapon to make something explode. In a press release, the military called the weapon “a lightweight,

Pete Hegseth recently announced that the flu vaccine, which was mandated for the Joint Force under Joe Biden’s administration, will no longer be necessary and can instead be taken at one’s will. He also criticized the former government for making soldiers choose between “their conscience and their country.

The aging attack plane has come close to retirement, but congressional and now military intervention has repeatedly thrown it a lifeline.

A second carrier -- the USS Gerald R. Ford -- was operating in the Red Sea on Thursday, while a third -- the USS Abraham Lincoln -- is also in the region, according to social media posts by CENTCOM.