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Military branch involved in naval warfare
The Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA) of 1986 gives the United States broad law‑enforcement jurisdiction to board, seize, and prosecute drug trafficking on vessels on the high seas and to trea...
U.S. military recruitment has reversed years of shortfalls and is up in 2024–25: the Army contracted more than 61,000 recruits for FY2025—about 10% higher than its FY2024 goal—and the services reporte...
U.S. forces in Europe are funded through a mix of regular Department of Defense appropriations and targeted programs such as the European Deterrence Initiative (EDI), which had a FY2025 request of $2....
The USS Missouri (BB‑63) is a museum ship at Pearl Harbor and , and multiple recent reports conclude recommissioning in an emergency is highly impractical given technical, personnel, legal, and cost b...
Retired U.S. service members can, in specific circumstances, be subject to military prosecution under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ); courts and recent Pentagon practice have reaffirmed t...
The President can order U.S. Marines (and other forces) into action without a prior formal declaration of war by Congress; longstanding practice, Department of Justice and Office of Legal Counsel reas...
The available reporting does not provide a comprehensive historical list of every military officer ever court‑martialed for refusing orders; recent coverage centers on a 2025 controversy over Democrat...
Since Congress enacted the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA) in 1986 to push U.S. drug prosecutions onto the high seas, courts and the Department of Defense (and related military actors) have ...
Technically, yes: at least two Iowa‑class hulls are still listed in reserve and could be reactivated, because the class has been recommissioned before and museum ships are maintained in relatively goo...
Multiple contemporaneous and later official and journalistic sources document airplane wreckage at the Pentagon: FBI photographs of interior wreckage, eyewitness accounts and photos of airplane parts,...
The available sources do not provide a single, definitive count of “how many drug interdictions the U.S. Coast Guard conducted in 2024.” Public documents and reporting give quantity metrics in multipl...
The immediate diplomatic crisis after the June 8, 1967 USS Liberty attack produced a formal Israeli apology, U.S. acceptance at senior levels, and negotiated monetary compensation of roughly $13 milli...
Available reporting shows the Pentagon has opened a review that could, in theory, lead to recalling retired Navy Captain and sitting Senator Mark Kelly to active duty and possible court-martial becaus...
The Bronze Star was created in 1944 and, from the start, could distinguish meritorious service from combat heroism by the addition of a small "V" device—first authorized by the Army in 1945 and adopte...
The military’s rules under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) place , justified by the need for discipline, cohesion, and operational effectiveness . Critics argue these restrictions are some...
Yes — federal law and longstanding military policy allow many retired-list servicemembers to be ordered back to active duty, and courts and agencies treat most retirees as maintaining a “military” leg...
The United States faces a meaningful shortfall in technical talent relevant to defense missions: the Department of Defense concedes it is struggling to recruit and retain the specialized engineers, cy...
President Trump did oversee a high-profile shake-up of senior Pentagon leadership in February 2025 that included the removal of General Charles Q. "CQ" Brown Jr., the Black Chairman of the Joint Chief...
Retired officers can be—and historically have been—subject to recall to active duty under federal law, and the Pentagon has asserted it could recall a retired Navy captain (Sen. Mark Kelly) to face mi...
Public reporting in early 2025 documents how many members of the 119th Congress have military experience, but it does not contain a single, authoritative roster that separates current active-duty serv...