Despite yet another spike in costs and an international coalition that seems to be fraying at the seams, there is an sense of 'emerging stability' within the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, according to the Pentagon. 

Reality television star and prominent Mitt Romney surrogate Donald Trump said Tuesday that he believes President Obama would begin a war with Iran because it would help him politically.

"I happen to think that the President is going to start a war with Iran," Trump said on the Laura Ingraham show. "I think it will be a short-term popular thing to do, and I think he’s going to do that for political reasons, if you want to know the truth. I don’t know if anyone says this openly, but I think he’s going to start a war with Iran."

Trump said a war with Iran would help Obama politically much in the same way the war with Iraq provided former President George W. Bush a temporary wartime boost in the polls.

A new seaport being built by the Philippine government in the Spratly islands could become the Pentagon's military outpost in the hotly contested South China Sea, according to news reports. 

Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) on Monday asked Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and ranking member John McCain (R-Ariz.) to consider a prohibition on using any funds from the 2013 defense authorization bill from being used for Air Force restructuring decisions until Congress and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) review the decisions.

Begich's April 2 letter reflects his latest attempt to stop a plan to move his state's F-16 Squadron Eielson Air Force base to the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson — also in Alaska.

The Marine, Sgt. Gary Stein, wrote on Facebook that he would not follow unlawful orders from President Obama.

An overzealous campaign by Ottawa to buy the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has put Canada's role on the fighter at risk, putting the United States in danger of losing a key ally in the program. 

Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) continued a Republican offensive against President Obama on missile defense for his comments last week to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev where Obama asked for “space” and “flexibility” until after the election.

Writing an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, Kyl suggested that Obama was looking to compromise U.S. missile defense capabilities in Europe to gain another round of arms reductions with Russia.

The Pentagon's highly-secretive cadre of elite soldiers that took out al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden just got a new second-in-command. 

One of the largest U.S. military prisons for suspected terrorists is now officially under Afghan control.