The U.S. Coast Guard on Guam is expecting at least two new cutters next year, an addition that would expand its operations as the service reprioritizes border security.

The U.S. Marine Corps plans to deploy its new Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System to the Philippines for the first time during this month’s Balikatan exercise, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on his recent stop in Manila.

The Chinese military conducted large-scale drills in the waters and airspace around Taiwan on Tuesday that included an aircraft carrier battle group, as it again warned the self-ruled democracy against seeking formal independence.

If sent to the Middle East, the USS Gerald R. Ford strike group will put newly adapted counter-drone weapons to the test as the Navy explores alternatives to shooting down cheap Houthi drones with multimillion-dollar munitions.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the secretaries of the military services to come up with a plan that distinguishes between combat-arms jobs and noncombat-arms jobs and develops physical standards that are “sex-neutral.”

Russia views efforts to end its three-year war with Ukraine as “a drawn-out process,” a Kremlin spokesman said Monday, after U.S. President Donald Trump expressed frustration with the two countries’ leaders as he tries to bring about a truce.

Since the start of 2023, when a new law allowing permitless carry took effect, 99 people have been arrested for illegally bringing firearms onto the military base, according to Redstone officials. And the rate of arrests has been going up each year since.

A program that guided the Army’s female soldiers along their career path has been renamed and opened to men, as the services work to comply with new Pentagon rules.

The increase applies to active-duty members in the E-1 to E-4 pay grades and will appear beginning with the mid-month paycheck for April.

Three U.S. soldiers missing in Lithuania were found dead after their submerged armored vehicle was pulled from a muddy bog, U.S. Army Europe and Africa said Monday.