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A 155mm round is fired from a 777 Howitzer canon at insurgents during a firing mission by soldiers with 2nd Platoon, Charlie Battery, 3rd Battalion, 321 Field Artillery Regiment out of Fort Bragg, N.C., July 8, 2011, at Forward Operating Base Bostick in Kunar province, Afghanistan. The Biden administration's decision to dramatically ramp up delivery of artillery guns to Ukraine eight weeks into the war signals a deepening American military commitment at a pivotal stage of fighting for the country's industrial heartland. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

U.S. provides artillery, training for Ukrainian troops

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Canada's Minister of National Defense Anita Anand speaks during a news conference with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin following their meeting at the Pentagon, Thursday, April 28, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Defense Secretary Austin, Canadian counterpart Anand back Ukraine support against Russia

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this file photo, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks as he presents awards to Department of Homeland Security employees, Wednesday, April 13, 2022, at Coast Guard Air Station Miami, in Opa-locka, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) **FILE**

DHS has spent $72 million to avoid building more border wall

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Marines launch a Stinger missile at the Capu Midia Surface to Air Firing Range, on the Black Sea coast in Romania, Monday, March 20, 2017. About 1,200 U.S. and Romanian troops take part in the Spring Storm 17 exercise, meant to simulate defense of the Romanian Black Sea coastline and urban areas. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

U.S. scrambling to replenish its Stinger arsenal after arming Ukraine

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Illustration on the lack of clarity in the 2023 defense budget by Alexandr Hunter/The Washington Times

The fog of the 2023 defense budget

By Frederico Bartels

Over 180 soldiers with the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team prepare to board a charter flight during their deployment to Germany from Hunter Army Airfield, Wednesday March 2, 2022 in Savannah, Ga. The division is sending 3,800 troops as reinforcements for various NATO allies in Eastern Europe. (Stephen B. Morton /Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

A growing U.S. footprint in Europe brings hard questions for Pentagon

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks at a news conference during the fourth U.S.-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue at the State Department in Washington, Monday, April 11, 2022. After more than a year of no direct formal contact, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday spoke on the telephone with his military counterpart in China, a nation he has repeatedly characterized as the "pacing challenge" for U.S. forces. (Michael A. McCoy/Pool via AP)

After more than a year, Pentagon chief Austin, Chinese military counterpart speak by phone

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

The Russian missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, is seen anchored in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, on Sept. 11, 2008. The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the ship was damaged Wednesday, April 13, 2022, but not that it was hit by Ukraine. The Ministry says ammunition on board detonated as a result of a fire whose causes &quot;were being established,&quot; and the Moskva's entire crew was evacuated. (AP Photo, File)

Sinking of storied flagship latest blow to Russian war push

By David R. Sands and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Ukrainian servicemen study a Sweden shoulder-launched weapon system Carl Gustaf M4 during a training session on the near Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 7, 2022. Western weaponry pouring into Ukraine helped blunt Russia's initial offensive and seems certain to play a central role in the approaching battle for Ukraine's contested Donbas region. Yet the Russian military is making little headway halting what has become a historic arms express. (AP Photo/Andrew Marienko, File)

Backfire: Sweden, Finland eye NATO in reaction to Russian invasion

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Ukrainian tanks move in a street in Irpin, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine braces for Donbas battle as Moscow’s war effort faces new questions

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

People walk by an apartment building destroyed during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces in Borodyanka, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russian troops of gruesome atrocities in Ukraine and told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that those responsible should immediately be brought up on war crimes charges in front of a tribunal like the one set up at Nuremberg after World War II.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ukraine battles, fallout far from over, Pentagon brass warn

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

This image provided by the U.S. Air Force shows a B-2 stealth bomber flying over the Pacific Ocean, before arriving at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, in 2006. A B-2 stealth bomber crashed Saturday Feb. 23, 2008 at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam. The two pilots aboard the bomber ejected before the crash and are safe the U.S. Air Force said. A board of Air Force officers will investigate what happened. Each B-2 bomber costs about $1.2 billion to build. All 21 stealth bombers are based at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, but the Air Force has been rotating several of them through Guam since 2004, along with B-1 and B-52 bombers. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force photo, Staff Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III)

Pentagon to scrap nuclear gravity bomb as part of Biden review

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, flags fly at half-staff at Camp Justice, Aug. 29, 2021, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The Defense Department says Sufiyan Barhoumi, an Algerian man imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay detention center for nearly 20 years, has been released and sent back to his homeland. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Sufiyan Barhoumi, Guantanamo Bay detainee, returned to Algeria after 20 years

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks with U.S. troops, Friday, March 18, 2022 at an Army training range in Bulgaria. Austin was in Bulgaria to meet with U.S. troops and to consult with top Bulgarian government officials. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)

Biden boosts Pentagon budget, but GOP wants more

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Residents lining up for aid watch as Ukrainian soldiers ride atop a tank in the town of Trostsyanets, Ukraine, Monday, March 28, 2022. Trostsyanets was recently retaken by Ukrainian forces after being held by Russians since the early days of the war. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Russian, Ukrainian delegations to talk Tuesday as more U.S. troops head to Europe

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Pentagon to spend $6.1 billion to upgrade Army radios

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Su-27 fighter jets fly above a military base in the Zhytomyr region, Ukraine, on Dec. 6, 2018. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made a “desperate” plea to the United States to help Kyiv get more warplanes to fight Russia's invasion. (Mikhail Palinchak, Presidential Press Service via AP)

‘No-fly zone’ would not have stopped Russian attack on Ukrainian base, Pentagon says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Ukrainian soldiers on an armored personnel carrier pass by people carrying their belongings as they flee the conflict, in the Vyshgorod region close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Russia, Ukraine both still have most of their weapons after two weeks of fighting

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Ukrainians cross an improvised path under a destroyed bridge while fleeing Irpin, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Demands for ways to safely evacuate civilians have surged along with intensifying shelling by Russian forces, who have made significant advances in southern Ukraine but stalled in some other regions. Efforts to put in place cease-fires along humanitarian corridors have repeatedly failed amid Russian shelling. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Some civilians escape Ukraine as Pentagon nixes Polish jet offer

By Guy Taylor and Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, poses with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during a an extraordinary NATO foreign ministers meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, March 4, 2022. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Friday with his counterparts from NATO and the European Union, as Russia's war on Ukraine entered its ninth day marked by the seizure of the strategic port city of Kherson and the shelling of Europe's largest nuclear power plant. (Olivier Douliery, Pool Photo via AP)

Army chief of staff: Following Ukraine invasion, NATO closer now than it has been for several years

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times