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U.S. Secretary for Defense Lloyd J. Austin III speaks during a media conference after a meeting of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. NATO Defence Ministers are meeting in Brussels Thursday as the military alliance presses ahead with plans to hold a nuclear exercise next week as concerns deepen over President Vladimir Putin's insistence that he will use any means necessary to defend Russian territory. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

Pentagon to pay travel costs, offer leave for service members who cross state lines to get abortions

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this March 2, 2020, file photo, then-Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg speaks during a FOX News Channel Town Hall in Manassas, Va. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Mike Bloomberg, billionaire and ex-NYC mayor, leads new Pentagon advisory board

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., left, a former Marine, joined at right by Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, speaks during a roundtable discussion with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and other Republicans as they criticize President Joe Biden on the Afghanistan evacuation, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

U.S. needs to boost preparations for defense of Taiwan from Chinese assault, GOP lawmaker says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has proposed a peace plan for Ukraine that would involve holding repeat votes under the U.N. auspices in Russia-occupied regions, triggering a showdown with Ukrainian Twitter users who have rejected his proposals in a stream of furious comments. (Patrick Pleul/Pool via AP, File)

Official: Musk seeks US funding of Ukraine satellite network

By Tara Copp and Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

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)

U.S. sensors unable to track Chinese, Russian hypersonic missiles, says congressional report

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Women walk in a neighborhood heavily damaged by airstrikes in Idlib, Syria, March 12, 2020. Syrians in the last major rebel stronghold in the war-ton country are living in fear of the effects of Russia closing down the only border crossing into the northwestern province of Idlib. Aid agencies warn that if Russia vetoes the resolution that would maintain two border crossing points from Turkey to deliver humanitarian aid, food would be depleted in Idlib and surrounding areas by September, 2022, putting the lives of some 4.1 million people, at risk. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

U.S. battles ISIS, Iran-backed militias as Syria quietly becomes top global war zone

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin talks during the press conference with Minister of Defence of Latvia Artis Pabriks during the press conference in Riga, Latvia, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov)

Goodbye, Fort Hood: Austin approves plan to nix Confederate names from U.S. military bases

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

The Pentagon is seen from Air Force One as it flies over Washington on March 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

U.S. raid in Syria kills key ISIS figure, Pentagon says

By Ben Wolfgang and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, file photo, Shi Zhengli works with other researchers in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. (Chinatopix via AP) ** FILE **

U.S. funded Chinese research

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Russian recruits board a bus at a military recruitment center in Volzhskiy, Volgograd region, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a partial mobilization of reservists to beef up his forces in Ukraine. (AP Photo)

Russian army conscripts starting to arrive in Ukraine

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 31, 2010, file photo, an unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night. The White House has a released a version of President Barack Obama’s three-year-old directive on the use of lethal force against terrorists overseas, laying out what it says are safeguards to minimize civilian deaths and errant strikes while preserving the capability to take quick action with drone attacks and other means.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

12 civilians killed in U.S. military operations in 2021, new Pentagon report says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this handout photo released by Uzbekistan Foreign Ministry, Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (Uzbekistan Presidential Press Service via AP) ** FILE **

China used ‘double-crossing companies’ to steal U.S. national security research

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this file photo, a U.S. military aide carrying the "President's emergency satchel," also known as "the football," with the nuclear launch codes, walks toward Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 13, 2021, to join President Joe Biden for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and then on to Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Biden officials tried to restrict nuclear arms use

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A member of the US Army's 1st Armoured Battalion of the 9th Regiment, 1st Division from Fort Hood in Texas prepare to unload Abrams battle tanks from rail cars as they arrive at the Pabrade railway station some 50 km (31 miles) north of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. The U.S. military says it's preparing a massive exercise early next year in Europe involving 20,000 soldiers from the U.S., the largest deployment across the Atlantic for training in more than 25 years. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Pentagon says NATO-style tanks for Ukraine are ‘on the table’ — but not yet

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this June 3, 2011, file photo, the Pentagon building is seen from air from Air Force One. The Pentagon is reportedly reviewing its information warfare operations after social media companies cracked down on a pro-American influence operation with potential ties to the U.S. government. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) **FILE**

U.S. government reviewing psyops after social media crackdown on a pro-American influence campaign

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Welcome Illegal Immigrants to the DC Sanctuary City Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Why is D.C.’s Mayor Bowser so afraid of illegal immigrants?

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times

An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launches during an operational test at 1:13 A.M. PDT, Sept. 7, 2022, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif. ICBM test launches demonstrate that the U.S. ICBM fleet is relevant, essential and key to leveraging dominance in an era of strategic competition. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ryan Quijas) ** FILE **

Pentagon tests multi-warhead ICBM after delays

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

People walk past a crater from an explosion that hit an area near the Ukrainian Red Cross Society during a Russian attack yesterday in Sloviansk, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Once-mighty arms exporter, Russian military cuts deal to buy from Iran, North Korea

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the Long March 5B Y3 carrier rocket, carrying Wentian lab module blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Wenchang in southern China's Hainan Province Sunday, July 24, 2022. On a hot Sunday afternoon, with a large crowd of amateur photographers and space enthusiasts watching, China launched the Wentian lab module from tropical Hainan Island. (Li Gang/Xinhua via AP)

China’s space power to promote communism

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin talks during the press conference with Minister of Defence of Latvia Artis Pabriks during the press conference in Riga, Latvia, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov)

Pentagon rolls out plan to safeguard civilians on the battlefield

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times