Germany has positioned itself to become the "strongest conventional army in Europe" by 2039. Big military investments are fueling such predictions.

The idea that defense spending should somehow be a consistent percentage of GDP is as fallacious as it is wasteful. Consider a recent Washington Post editorial. It oddly asserted that “Throughout the Cold War, the U.S. consistently spent more than 5 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – When lawmakers return to the Capitol from a two-week recess on Monday, one of their first orders of business will be supplementing the budget of the U.S. military, which has depleted its stockpiles of missiles and other materiel during ...

MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. WASHINGTON – Even before the Iran war was launched, Minnesota’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s the largest defense budget request in history. Trump’s budget would mark a 44% increase in Pentagon spending, while substantially cutting what the administration calls "woke ...