Before hundreds of top brass, Hegseth pledged to create more fitness and grooming rules and encouraged commanders to quit if they don’t like his policies.
When combined with another F-35 deal from December 2024, the Pentagon will pay Lockheed Martin about $24.3 billion for the 18th and 19th lots of the jets.
The countries had regularly held joint military exercises until 2012, when political relations deteriorated after the overthrow of the Egyptian government.
Russia is selling military equipment and tech to China that could help Beijing prepare an airborne takeover of Taiwan, according to a U.K. defense forum.
Fourteen months on, with a new U.S. administration in charge, officials in Berlin believe a Biden-era plan to send an Army unit with such arms is still on.
The Pentagon’s top national security focus will mirror that of President Trump’s “America First” agenda to defend the homeland, with China a key focus.