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A U.S. MQ-9 drone is on display during an air show at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. A Russian fighter jet Tuesday, Marc 14, 2023, struck the propeller of a U.S. MQ-9 drone surveillance drone over the Black Sea, causing American forces to bring down the unmanned aerial vehicle in international waters, the U.S. military said, an incident that highlighted soaring U.S.-Russian tensions over Moscow's war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

‘That’s U.S. property’: Pentagon races to find drone wreckage as Russia launches recovery mission

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Airmen with the 436th Aerial Port Squadron use a forklift to move 155 mm shells ultimately bound for Ukraine, April 29, 2022, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. The Pentagon announced a new package of long-term security assistance for Ukraine on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023, marking the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion with a $2 billion commitment to send more rounds of ammunition and a variety of small, high-tech drones into the fight. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

U.S. military depleting own arsenal to supply Ukraine as Russian war drags on

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Chinese military vehicles carrying DF-17 ballistic missiles roll during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing, on Oct. 1, 2019. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, that China’s pursuit of hypersonic weapons “increases tensions in the region” and vowed the U.S. would maintain its capability to deter potential threats posed by China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China outpacing U.S. in hypersonic missiles, Defense Intelligence Agency warns

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this image supplied by the Australian Department of Defence, Chinese People's Liberation Army-Navy (PLA-N) Intelligence Collection Vessel Haiwangxing operating off the north-west shelf of Australia, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Australian Minister of Defence Peter Dutton said Friday, May 13, 2022, that the Chinese warship with spying capabilities had been hugging the western coastline in what amounted to an &quot;aggressive act.&quot; (Australian Defence Dept. via AP)

China’s navy suspected in electronic interference of civilian, military aircraft flights

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this photo from the U.S. Navy, the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf sails with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun as part of the Juniper Oak exercise with Israel in the Mediterranean Sea, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. Iran has enough highly enriched uranium to build "several" nuclear weapons if it chooses, the United Nations' top nuclear official is now warning. But diplomatic efforts aimed at again limiting its atomic program seem more unlikely than ever before as Tehran arms Russia in its war on Ukraine and as unrest shakes the Islamic Republic. The Juniper Oak exercise comes amid the tension. (Petty Officer 2nd Class Christine Montgomery/U.S. Navy via AP)

Pentagon says Russia supplying fuel for Chinese nuclear warheads

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

U.S. Marines join in an ongoing U.S.-Thai joint military exercise Cobra Gold on Hat Yao beach in Chonburi province, eastern Thailand, Friday, March 3, 2023. Cobra Gold 2023, one of the biggest joint multilateral military exercises in the world that pulls together the security interests of the United States and six Asian nations. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Giant Cobra Gold exercise offers a case study in U.S.-China rivalry

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Nov. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

House lawmakers dig in on Pentagon audit failures ahead of Biden’s federal budget release

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Daniel Ellsberg speaks during an interview in Los Angeles on Sept. 23, 2009. Ellsberg, who copied and leaked documents that revealed secret details of U.S. strategy in the Vietnam War and became known as the Pentagon Papers, has announced he has terminal cancer and months to live. Ellsberg posted on his Facebook page Thursday, March 2, 2023, that doctors diagnosed the 91-year-old with inoperable pancreatic cancer on Feb. 17 following a CT scan and MRI.(AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

Pentagon Papers leaker Ellsberg says he has terminal cancer

U.S. Army Pacific commander Gen. Charles Flynn poses for a photograph after an interview with The Associated Press Friday, March 25, 2022, in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP Photo/Tassanee Vejpongsa) ** FILE **

Army secretary, top general push for bigger role as China tensions surge

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Spc. Brady McNeil, a radiologist with the Vermont Army National Guard, draws up a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 during a vaccination clinic at the Brattleboro Area Middle School, April 14, 2021, in Brattleboro, Vt. The Army says it will start booting out soldiers who refuse to take the COVID-19 shot only days after yet another fully-vaccinated and boosted senior Pentagon official tested positive for the coronavirus. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP, File)

Lawmakers question Pentagon brass on why troops who refused COVID vaccine still face penalties

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Airmen with the 436th Aerial Port Squadron use a forklift to move 155 mm shells ultimately bound for Ukraine, April 29, 2022, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. The Pentagon announced a new package of long-term security assistance for Ukraine on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023, marking the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion with a $2 billion commitment to send more rounds of ammunition and a variety of small, high-tech drones into the fight. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

U.S. commits $2 billion in drones, ammunition, aid to Ukraine on war anniversary

By Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp - Associated Press

The flag of the United States Space Force flies high on a sunny afternoon as a half moon rises behind it. File photo credit: Ajax9 via Shutterstock.

Space Force leader warns of China threat

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

U.S. military vehicles on a patrol in the countryside near the town of Qamishli, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. U.S. and Kurdish-led forces had arrested an Islamic State group militant in eastern Syria. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said in a statement Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, that they raided the home of an unnamed IS militant leader in the western countryside of Deir el-Zour and arrested him. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)

4 U.S. troops injured, ISIS leader killed during helicopter raid in Syria

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this image released by the U.S. Navy, sailors assigned to Assault Craft Unit 4 prepare material recovered off the coast of Myrtle Beach, S.C., in the Atlantic Ocean from the shooting down of a Chinese high-altitude balloon, for transport to the FBI, at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach, Va., on Feb. 10, 2023. (Ryan Seelbach/U.S. Navy via AP)

Aliens in the clear, all others suspect in string of U.S. shootdowns

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden leaves Holy Trinity Catholic Church in the Georgetown section of Washington after attending Mass, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Biden goes silent on flying objects while lawmakers seek answers

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by Chad Fish, a large balloon drifts above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023. A missile fired on Feb. 5 by a U.S. F-22 off the Carolina coast ended the days-long flight of what the Biden administration says was a surveillance operation that took the Chinese balloon near U.S. military sites. (Chad Fish via AP)

More balloons raise wonder, worry for North Americans

By Ben Wolfgang and Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Lawmakers and intelligence advisers, including Gen. Glen VanHerck, left, commander of the United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, arrive for a closed briefing on the Chinese surveillance balloon that flew over the United States recently, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Hill fumes as Pentagon describes vast China balloon spy program

By Guy Taylor and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Marco Rubio, R-Fla., talks to reporters after a closed-door briefing on the Chinese surveillance balloon that flew over the United States recently, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Furious lawmakers grill Biden officials over Chinese spy balloon

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A high-altitude balloon floats over Billings, Mont., on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. The huge, high-altitude Chinese balloon sailed across the U.S. on Friday, drawing severe Pentagon accusations of spying and sending excited or alarmed Americans outside with binoculars. Secretary of State Antony Blinken abruptly canceled a high-stakes Beijing trip aimed at easing U.S.-China tensions. (Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette via AP)

U.S. tracked Chinese spy balloon from the start but held off on attack, NORAD commander says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Schumer defends Biden’s response to China’s spying; Senate to receive classified briefing on Feb. 15

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times