The new Pentagon chief’s off-the-cuff remarks are a sea change from predecessor Robert Gates.

Pakistan’s chief lobbyist asked the U.S. to apologize for NATO airstrikes that inadvertently killed 24 Pakistanis, according to DOJ records.

President Obama called for Bashar al-Assad to step down, but China and Russia blocked efforts at the United Nations.

A National Guard association is protesting the personnel cuts that are coming to the Air Force National Guard as part of the Pentagon’s 2013 budget, which implements cuts of $487 billion over the next 10 years.

Following a Friday briefing by top Air Force officials on the budget, which will be released in full on Feb. 13, the National Guard Association of the United States (NGAUS) issued a statement complaining that the Guard would take the bulk of the cuts.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday that Iran will strike back if the United States and other countries attack it with military strikes or economic sanctions.

Khamenei said that Iran had its own tools to counter threats, which it would use “if necessary,” and that a war with Iran would harm the United States “10 times more.”

"I'm just not commenting," the Defense secretary said when asked about it.

The GOP senators want to prevent $500 billion in automatic defense cuts set to begin in January 2013.

Four Virginia House members say that Pentagon budget cuts should stop the proposed move of a Naval aircraft carrier to Florida.

The group wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta urging him to reconsider the decision to move a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier from Norfolk, Va., to Mayport, Fla.

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Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) has seen the devastating impact of military hazing in her family, and now she’s calling for major changes in the way the military addresses it.

Chu, whose nephew Lance Cpl. Harry Lew committed suicide in Afghanistan last year after he was attacked by fellow Marines, called for a congressional hearing on military hazing Thursday, after one of Marines charged in her nephew’s case was not discharged from the military.

Lance Cpl. Jacob Jacoby, one of three Marines charged in the case, was sentenced Monday to a 30-days in jail and a reduction in rank.

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