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Hegseth takes heat from Republicans in back-to-back hearings: 5 takeaways

12 May 2026 at 21:24
Republicans in the House and Senate vented their frustrations with the Pentagon on Tuesday, using a pair of back-to-back hearings to press Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the Iran war, President Trump’s unusual plan to fund the Defense Department, spending priorities and America’s dwindling munitions stockpiles. The hearings come as the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran...

Key House Republicans press Hegseth, express skepticism on Pentagon budget

12 May 2026 at 14:50
The top Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday seemed dubious of plans to fund the Pentagon’s $1.5 billion budget request as Congress waits to receive a supplemental request for tens of billions of dollars to fund the war in Iran. Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), the chair of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, pressed...

Iraq Enhancing Weak Air Defense With South Korean And Turkish Systems

It very much remains to be seen whether these Turkish and Korean systems will ever realize their full combat potential in Iraqi service.

Kiev loses 8,400 troops, mercenaries in special military op zone in past week — expert

12 May 2026 at 06:23
Andrey Marochko said the Ukrainian armed forces suffered the greatest manpower losses in the area of operation of Russia’s Battlegroup East in the Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye regions

Hegseth's latest attack on Kelly underlines alarm over US weapons stockpiles 

11 May 2026 at 21:36
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s latest attack against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) is underscoring the alarm over the state of the U.S. military’s weapons stockpiles more than two months into the war with Iran. Hegseth accused Kelly, a Navy veteran and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), of divulging classified information regarding key U.S. munitions...

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