I N DOLLAR TERMS, America’s defence budget still towers over the rest—it is bigger than those of the next nine countries combined. But such comparisons reveal little about wha ...

The Pentagon’s annual topline budget weighs in at more than 300 pages. But that’s just the start. There are thousands of documents, attachments, and PowerPoints, covering everything from the billions ...

The White House spending plans call for a 3.8% pay boost next year, a smaller raise than troops saw in January.