US Military

Defense officials say the U.S. will pull 12,000 troops from Germany, bringing 6,400 home and shifting 5,600 to other countries in Europe, including Italy and Belgium

Officials on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa say dozens of U.S. Marines have been infected with the coronavirus at two bases on the island in what is feared to be a massive outbreak

The USS Roosevelt, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier sidelined for part of its deployment when more than 1,000 of its sailors tested positive for COVID-19, will return to San Diego from deployment.

President Donald Trump has falsely claimed his administration invested “$2.5 trillion in all of the greatest equipment in the world” for the military. That’s approximately the total for defense budgets from 2017 to 2020, but the cost of purchasing new military equipment was 20% of that. It’s true the Defense Department budgets passed under Trump — which total $2.9 trillion, in inflation-adjusted…