The surprise victory of Donald Trump in the presidential election could mean a Reagan-era rebuilding of the U.S. military strength accompanied by a weakening of alliances with foreign powers.

“Trump’s election heralds a surge in military spending by the government, both for weapons and for additional personnel in the ground forces,” said Loren Thompson, a defense consultant with the Lexington Institute. “Obama has neglected investment in new weapons and, as a consequence, our enemies have been closing the gap with the Pentagon in terms of capabilities.”

UPDATE (10/26/16, 11:30 a.m.): U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter ordered Pentagon officials this morning to suspend all efforts to seek bonus repayments from California National Guard members. Carter has given Defense Department officials until Jan. 1 to create a streamlined process for dealing with the fraudulent bonus debacle.

A retired four-star Marine general accepted a plea deal Monday, avoiding a public trial in which highly classified information might have been disclosed.

In the complex world of nuclear weapons strategy, perception is everything. And as tensions between the United States  and Russia escalate, Russia increasingly perceives the U.S. missile defense program as an offensive threat.

In a bluntly worded speech this week, a top officer on the Russian military’s general staff accused the Pentagon of using the missile-defense program as part of a strategy for a possible first nuclear strike. 

In a decision the Navy Times called “a tectonic shift in the Navy’s personnel system,” the service last week abandoned the time-honored tradition of referring to enlisted sailors by their rating, or job title, as well as their rank.

America’s nuclear arsenal is getting long in the tooth. The mainstay of the U.S. Air Force’s nuclear-capable bomber fleet, the B-52, first flew in the early 1950s. Four hundred Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, designed in the early 1960s, sit in aging and decaying silos. And the youngest nuclear weapon platform, the Ohio-class submarine, was first commissioned in 1981—before many of the sailors operating it were born.

The U.S. Navy has announced its plan for training all personnel on the Pentagon’s new policy allowing transgender service members to serve openly. 

The announcement, delivered by Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Robert Burke, outlines the service’s strategy to prepare both senior leaders and rank-and-file sailors for the changes, according to Military.com.

“This training will emphasize policies and expectations of personal behavior,” the all-Navy message stated.