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In this Friday, April 30, 2021, photo former Afghan interpreters hold placards during a protest against the U.S. government and NATO in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

‘I’m waiting for my number’: Time running out for Afghan allies caught in U.S. evacuation snare

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

The image from video provided by the Department of Defense labelled Gimbal, from 2015, an unexplained object is seen at center as it is tracked as it soars high along the clouds, traveling against the wind. “There's a whole fleet of them,” one naval aviator tells another, though only one indistinct object is shown. “It's rotating.&quot; The U.S. government has been taking a hard look at unidentified flying objects, under orders from Congress, and a report summarizing what officials know is expected to come out in June 2021. (Department of Defense via AP)

UFO witnesses aren’t buying into government report

By Brian Broom and Mississippi Clarion Ledger - Associated Press

In this Sept. 19, 2019, file photo, an F-35 fighter jet arrives at the Vermont Air National Guard base in South Burlington, Vt. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring, File) ** FILE **

Billions need to be cut from troubled F-35 fighter program, watchdog warns

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This March 27, 2008, file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. The Pentagon said Tuesday, July 6, 2021, that it is canceling a cloud-computing contract with Microsoft that could eventually have been worth $10 billion and will instead pursue a deal with both Microsoft and Amazon. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) ** FILE **

Pentagon scraps troubled JEDI cloud contract amid battle with Amazon

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin hosts an honor cordon welcoming Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the Pentagon in Washington, Thursday, June 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Pentagon IG warns ‘independence’ at risk amid diversity, anti-extremism push in military

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

This March 27, 2008, photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) **FILE**

Pentagon makes China top priority with new task force report

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Space Force Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier’s abrupt dismissal earlier this month, which is now being investigated by the Air Force’s own inspector general, is providing Exhibit A for those with questions of whether political correctness, “critical race theory” and anti-conservative biases are finding a home at the Pentagon. (U.S. Air Force photograph)

Matthew Lohmeier, dismissed Space Force officer, finds ally in James Inhofe, Mike Rogers

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 12, 2009, photo, the Pentagon is seen from Air Force One. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) ** FILE **

Space Force firing case proves touchstone for raging debate over conservatives and the military

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force, Capt. Ryan Vickers stands for a photo to display his new service tapes after taking his oath of office to transfer from the U.S. Air Force to the U.S. Space Force at Al-Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. Space Force, the first new U.S. military service since the creation of the Air Force in 1947, now has some 20 members stationed at Qatar's Al-Udeid Air Base in its first foreign deployment. (Staff Sgt. Kayla White/U.S. Air Force via AP) ** FILE **

James Inhofe, Mike Rogers question Matthew Lohmeier firing from Space Force

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A Skyborg conceptual design for a low-cost Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV), via the Air Force Research Lab. Artwork via AFRL. [https://afresearchlab.com/technology/vanguards/successstories/skyborg]

Military AI advances spark debate over whether the machines may misbehave

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. Reports of sexual assaults across the U.S. military increased by a very small amount in 2020, a year when troops were largely locked down for months as bases around the world grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic, according to U.S. officials. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

DARPA, Pentagon’s research arm, getting billions in taxpayer dollars it never requested

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 12, 2009, photo, the Pentagon is seen from Air Force One. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) ** FILE **

Senators say Pentagon must pass audit or return millions of dollars

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby puts his mask on following a media briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Monday, May 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Pentagon drops indoor mask requirement

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Newly erected border wall separating Mexico, left, and the United States, cuts through through the Sonoran Desert just west of the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, in Douglas, Ariz. Construction of the border wall, mostly in government owned wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory, has led to environmental damage and the scarring of unique desert and mountain landscapes that conservationists fear could be irreversible. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Biden cancels all Pentagon money used for Trump’s Mexico border wall

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. After weeks of wonder by the networking community, the Pentagon has now provided a very terse explanation for why it hired a shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank to manage a colossal, previously idle chunk of the internet that it owns. Many basic questions remain unanswered, beginning with why it chose for the task a company that seems not to have existed until September. The company, Global Resource Systems, has not responded to attempts by The Associated Press to seek comment. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

The big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solved

By Frank Bajak - Associated Press

U.S. Navy F-35 jets fly over Levi's Stadium during the national anthem before an NFL divisional playoff football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Minnesota Vikings, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020, in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot) ** FILE **

F-35 threatened by Pentagon budget crunch

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 12, 2009, photo, the Pentagon is seen from Air Force One. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) ** FILE **

Former top Navy auditor accused in multiple sexual harassment incidents, Pentagon watchdog says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this March 2, 2017, file photo, Tucker Carlson, host of &quot;Tucker Carlson Tonight,&quot; poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Pentagon’s Tucker Carlson offensive fuels fears of a politicized military

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), a long-range S-200 missile is fired in a military drill in the port city of Bushehr, on the northern coast of Persian Gulf, Iran, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2016. The U.S. airstrike that killed a prominent Iranian general in Baghdad raises tensions even higher between Tehran and Washington after months of trading attacks and threats across the wider Middle East. (Amir Kholousi, ISNA via AP)

James H. Baker, Pentagon strategist, says Iran nukes ‘probable’

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, center, arrives on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, at sea. Austin told sailors on the USS Nimitz Thursday that he hopes to avoid long ship deployments like the more than 10 months they just spent at sea. But as he made his first aircraft carrier visit as Pentagon chief, he acknowledged the competing demands for American warships around the globe as he wrestles with security threats from China in the Pacific and Iran in the Middle East. The Nimitz, which left its homeport of Bremerton, Washington, last April, has been at sea for nearly 300 days, including several weeks of pre-deployment exercises. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)

How the Pentagon is combating the latest emerging threat: ‘Extremism’ in the ranks

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times