The Pentagon's highly anticipated postwar strategy for Afghanistan currently under review by the White House will not include plans to withdraw the 68,000 American still in country, a DOD official told reporters at the Pentagon. 

The defense Secretary urged Congress to eliminate the threat of sequestration by passing balanced deficit reduction.

Pentagon and White House budget officials are busily reworking the department's budget blueprint for the upcoming fiscal year after Congress passed a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff."

The “fiscal cliff” deal that raised taxes and delayed across-the-board spending cuts also resolved a minor issue that has been holding up the defense authorization bill.

The fiscal cliff legislation included a provision tweaking language in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed last month that requires the president to notify Congress if there’s a reduction in the number of strategic delivery systems.

The fiscal cliff legislation edits the NDAA text to say that the president shall certify to defense committees “‘whether 'the Russian Federation' is in compliance with its ‘strategic’ arms control obligations with the United States."

The changes in the language replaced “that” with “whether” and added “strategic” to Russia’s arms control obligations.

Frank said disparaging comments Hagel made about an openly gay nominee should disqualify him from Cabinet consideration.

The Florida lawmaker is one of only two House Republicans—including Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.)—to receive a term-limits waiver. 

Rep. Mike Rogers said people would be “shocked and stunned” to learn how wrong the reports of civilian casualties are.

The bill from House Appropriations ranking member Norm Dicks would shift the $109 billion in spending cuts to 2014 and beyond.

The Senate Homeland Security Committee report charges that the Pentagon failed to station enough personnel to protect the consulate.