A village built by China along the Line of Actual Control in the Arunachal Pradesh sector and mentioned in a recent Pentagon report, is in territory controlled by that country, sources in the security establishment in New Delhi said on Tuesday.
On March 14, a Russian Su-27 jet collided with a US MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea.
The US defence department on Thursday insisted that its air strike that killed 11 Pakistani soldiers along the Afghanistan border was a "legitimate" act after an angry Islamabad summoned the American ambassador to protest against the "unprovoked and cowardly" attack.
Early this week, the US imposed sanctions on suppliers to Pakistan's ballistic missile programme, including three companies from China.
Reports (not denied by India) that the USA had 'for the first time provided real-time details to their Indian counterparts on the Chinese positions and force strength in advance of a PLA incursion' into Tawang at the LAC in December 2022, helping India thwart China's expansionist designs, show how operationally effective the USA-India friendship has become on the ground. A engaging excerpt from Sreeram Chaulia's must-read new book, Friends: India's Closest Strategic Partners.
The Pentagon on Tuesday called India a pivotal player in the region saying that the country was a very important strategic partner of the United States.
The recent Pentagon report on Indo-United States military-to-military ties signifies America's commitment for strengthening relations with India, top US senators have said.
The United States is looking forward to work with the new head of Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan, Pentagon said, noting the US-Pak relationship is critical for the region and Afghanistan.
Senior Pentagon officials have gone to bat for the Pakistani military defending even its slow counter-insurgency mobilization efforts against the Taliban and its entrenched threat perception vis--vis India.
"His remains were disposed of appropriately in accordance with our SOP (standard operating procedure) and the law of armed conflict," the top general said.
The FBI is investigating a mid-level Pentagon official for allegedly passing on secrets to Israel.
Donald Rumsfeld is also mulling over the possibility of monetarily compensating the Iraqi prisoners who have been wronged.
The Pentagon on Tuesday said that it has expressed "deepest regret" on the loss of life due to cross border fire on November 26, but declined to comment if there was any move by the United States to apologise for the incident that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
This will be Carter's sixth meeting with Parrikar, and comes just weeks after India was designated a major defence partner of the United States.
Additional United States military assets that were moved into the Middle East before Iran's attack on Israel will remain in place, CNN reported, citing Pentagon spokesperson Major General Pat Ryder.
China's official defence budget last year was $136.3 billion while that of India was $38.2 billion.
Days after a Pentagon report said Beijing built a large village in a disputed territory in the Arunachal Pradesh sector, India on Thursday said it has neither accepted any illegal occupation of its territory by China nor has it accepted unjustified Chinese claims.
China is improving its capacity for operations in cyberspace and developing capabilities to use internet for offensive operations, the Pentagon has said.
Vikram J Singh, who was the senior defense adviser to Richard Holbrooke, the erstwhile United States special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been appointed to a key Pentagon post -- deputy assistant secretary of defense for south and Southeast Asia.
America's ability to deal with a nuclear attack has been eroded over the years and the country is woefully unprepared for any kind of nuclear attack, a Pentagon report has suggested.
Terming Defence Secretary Leon Panetta's recent India visit as highly successful, the Pentagon on Monday refuted the Taliban statement that New Delhi resisted his call for greater Indian involvement in Afghanistan.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has met United States Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and held a productive conversation with him on deepening bilateral defence cooperation, including in the co-production of defence articles, and exchanged perspectives on a variety of security issues.
The Pentagon has alleged that Russia continues to provide the separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine with heavy weapons and other military equipment, in addition to financing.
The United States Senate has unanimously approved the nomination of Leon Panetta, the Central Investigation Agency director, to be the next Pentagon chief. He would succeed Robert Gates, who is one of longest serving US Defence Secretary.
The detection of the Chinese surveillance balloon transiting Latin America comes a day after the Pentagon found a Chinese surveillance balloon within its territory flying over Montana, leading to US Secretary of State Tony Blinken postponing his planned trip to Beijing.
It's the vehicle's first launch atop a SpaceX Falcon heavy rocket which is capable of lifting it far higher than ever before.
As Pakistan combats the terrorist threat along the Af-Pak border by moving about one lakh troops from its India border, a top Pentagon official told United States lawmakers on Thursday that Washington needs to reassure Islamabad that it is not exposing itself to increased risk along its eastern border.
Al-Qaeda splinter group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, which has carved out a large fiefdom along the Iraqi-Syrian border, poses a "legitimate threat" to the capital city of Baghdad, a top Pentagon official has said.
The White House and the Pentagon have denounced Republican presidential aspirant Donal Trump's call for a ban on the entry of Muslims into the United States, saying the anti-Muslim rhetoric undermines America's national security.
The Pentagon has ruled out any move to ban the sale of the controversial book on the killing of Osama bin Laden, which it says has been written by a former navy SEAL in breach of contractual obligations and contains classified information.
The Pentagon has said that it is not aware of any potential sale of F-22 fighter jets to India.
After a tense seven-month standoff, Pakistan has allowed two United States military liaison officers back on its turf, a move largely seen as a small but "significant" sign of cooperation.
The instructor has been removed from his teaching job at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, an official said, citing the outcome of an inquiry by Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey
Faced with a $487 billion slash in its budget over the next 10 years, the Pentagon has announced that it will downsize its military forces by 100,000, even as Defence Secretary Leon Panetta asserted that United States will remain a force to contend with anytime and anywhere.
India is key part of efforts of US President Barack Obama's administration to rebalance its Asia-Pacific posture to the broader security and prosperity of the 21st century, a top Pentagon official said adding India-US relationship is global in scope.
"The military relationship at the strategic level has been sustaining itself. Advancing military relationship in other ways at the operational and tactical levels -- getting our two militaries more acquainted with one another through operations or through counterpart visits -- has not advanced," Pacific Command Commander, Admiral Robert Willard, said.
The Pentagon has warned to take legal action against a former Navy SEAL who has written a first-person account of the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, saying that he has violated his signed agreement not to divulge classified information.
The Financial Times quoted senior officials as saying that Chinese hackers had penetrated the White House computer network on multiple occasions and obtained e-mails between government officials. They, however, conceded that it was extremely difficult to trace the exact source of an attack beyond a server in a particular country, the Times said.
There is no such annual parade in the United States, which is militarily the most powerful country of the world.
Indian Defence Minister A K Antony -- on his maiden visit to the United States met Defence Secretary Robert Gates in the Pentagon on Tuesday. Antony was received with full ceremonial honours in the River Parade Field before engaging in over an hour-long discussion on bilateral, regional and international issues with Gates. Sources said that no major bilateral agreements vis--vis military sales or contracts were signed during the meeting.
