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Pentagon officials say the announcement will be made Friday. The ban on gays openly serving in the military would end 60 days later.

China "has arrived as a world power," the top U.S. military officer said Sunday.

The House has passed a $649 billion defense spending bill that boosts the Pentagon budget by $17 billion....

Military officials are charging three California-based Marine corporals with fraud and larceny for entering in a pair of sham marriages to collect housing funding, officials said. The military alleges that a lesbian couple — one a Marine, the other a civilian — decided to live together off base and wanted to collect the $1,200 housing benefit granted to married Marines.

A day after stepping down as CIA director, Leon Panetta was sworn in Friday as secretary of defense. He began settling into the job by telling members of the military and their families they are "at the top of my agenda."...

President Obama pulled another military surprise today during Defense Secretary Robert Gates' farewell ceremony.

President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he will withdraw 10,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by year's end and a total of 33,000 by the summer of 2012.

Parris Island, the South Carolina military installation that has trained thousands of young Marines, has its first female commander.

Relations between Congress and the White House are reaching new lows as the administration refuses to back down on President Obama’s three-month long military campaign against Libyan leader Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi.

A bipartisan group of House members will file a lawsuit Wednesday challenging U.S. participation in the Libya military mission. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama is set to defend U.S. military involvement in Libya to Congress, according to the White House.