For more than 60 years, the military has launched reconnaissance, communications, and missile warning satellites into orbit.

Trump's push follows in the footsteps of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a scrapped program popularly called "Star ...

President Trump on Monday night signed an executive order to create a next-generation missile defense shield, which the White ...

Space-based missile defenses are the Holy Grail of American national defense. P resident Donald J. Trump wants to build an ...

There are significant challenges to overcome if we are to deploy something similar to Israel’s acclaimed air defense network ...

A U.S. Navy admiral stated bluntly earlier this month that the service should be “embarrassed” by its current conditions and battle readiness. He wasn’t talking about the size of the fleet—the ...

Such defense systems are extremely costly” with “their effectiveness often being questionable,” one expert said.

The executive order explicitly notes that the policy aims to achieve what was left unfinished by Reagan’s Strategic Defense ...

The Trump administration has unveiled a new strategy aimed at protecting the U.S. from missile and drone attacks.

China has territorial disputes with the Philippines, which has signed a security treaty with Washington that comes with mutual defense commitments.

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced he was launching a Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly known as “Star Wars,” with the goal of rendering nuclear weapons “impotent and obsolete.” ...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has offered to remove a U.S. missile system from the Philippines if China halts ...