F ocus on Defense: WASHINGTON, March 11, 2009 -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will await the results of a thorough review process before making decisions about major defense systems, keeping U.S. security interests at the forefront, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters today. â...

In this December 2008 file photo, the guided-missile submarine USS Ohio (SSGN 726) visits Naval Station Pearl Harbor on the return leg of its historic first deployment as a Trident guided-missile submarine. This will be the final stop before returning to its home port of Bangor, Wash. The submarine ...

GULF OF ADEN (Feb. 20, 2009) The Danish flexible support ship HDMS Absalon (L 16), right, the guided-missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG 72) and the guided-missile destroyer USS Mahan (DDG 72) transit the Gulf of Aden. Vella Gulf is the flagship for Combined Task Force 151, a multinational task force...

NORFOLK (Feb. 18, 2009) Cmdr. Wesley R. Guinn, commanding officer of the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Scranton (SSN 756), and Chief of the Boat Master Chief Machinist's Mate Steven Nordman inspect the crew in the new Navy working uniform. Scranton is the first submarine all crew members eq...

N ews in Balance: WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2009 -- In a story picked up by U.S. news outlets, The Times of London reported autonomous military robots that will fight future wars must be programmed to live by a strict warrior code, or the world risks untold atrocities at their steely hands. The stark war...

Pictured above is an artist's impression showing about 4 per cent of the objects orbiting the Earth. (Uncredited image.) N ews in Balance: WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2009 -- The collision yesterday of two communication satellites has left a debris pattern that may affect future space operations, the vice ...

N ews in Balance: WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 2009 -- Today’s terrorist suicide attacks in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul and the possibility that North Korea soon will conduct another ballistic missile test topped a briefing to reporters today by a senior Defense Department official. Pentagon spo...

N ews in Balance: EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. government has reexamined the utility of both nuclear deterrence and nonproliferation. A use-of-force doctrine developed calling for preventive military action against so-called "rogue states" seeking to ...

This cell phone was rigged as a detonator for an improvised explosive device. The detonator was recovered undamaged after having been successfully jammed by electronic warfare personnel using Counter Radio-Controlled IED Electronic Warfare equipment funded by the Joint Improvised Explosive Device De...

Staff Sgt. Trevor Helm washes the windshield of a B-1B Lancer prior to a mission Jan. 29 at an air base in Southwest Asia. The windows require a special solvent to clean them due to the material used in its creation. Sergeant Helm is a crew chief for the 7th Aircraft Maintenance Unit deployed from D...