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This photo released by Xinhua News Agency shows an image captured off the screen at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China showing the manned spaceship Shenzhou-15 conducting a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the space station's Tianhe module on Nov. 30, 2022. Three Chinese astronauts docked early Wednesday with their country's space station, where they will overlap for several days with the three-member crew already onboard and expand the facility to its maximum size. (Guo Zhongzheng/Xinhua via AP)

Space race 2.0: China is building weapons to attack U.S. ‘ground, sea, or air targets from orbit’

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the light trail of the launched manned spaceship Shenzhou-15, atop the Long March-2F Y15 carrier rocket after it blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. China launched the rocket Tuesday carrying three astronauts to complete construction of the country's permanent orbiting space station. (Ren Junchuan/Xinhua via AP)

China rapidly building space arms to ‘blind and deafen’ U.S. military, Pentagon says

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

China hones skills to rival U.S. as cyber superpower, 10 times more troops than U.S. Cyber Command

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

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 file photo, then-U.S. Rear Admiral Karl Thomas speaks on the deck of the U.S. Navy USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018. Now a vice admiral who serves as commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, he recently told the Wall Street Journal that China has the capability to blockade Taiwan. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) **FILE**

U.S. Pacific fleet commander warns expanding Chinese military could now blockade Taiwan

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagle escorts a Russian TU-95 Bear H strategic bomber, taking part in Russian military exercises, near Iceland on June 25, 1999. The appearance of Russian bombers over the Atlantic Ocean for the first time in years coincides with new efforts by Moscow to stop its once enormous military from disintegrating. This photo was released by the Department of Defense Thursday July 1, 1999 in Washington. (AP Photo/DOD Photo)

Russia flies reconnaissance aircraft in restricted zone near Alaska, NORAD planes scrambled

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Carlton Shelley II, center, is seen in this photo of the graduating class of 2013 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Shelley was recruited to play football for West Point from his Sarasota, Fla., high school and entered the academy in 2009. (U.S. Military Academy via AP)

Applications for West Point, Annapolis drop as recruiting woes hit service academies

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Nancy Kramer, a teacher from the Westminster Shores senior living facility, serves a plate of fruit to Hasina Sharifi, 8, of the Jawzjan province in Afghanistan on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 in St. Petersburg, Fla. Kramer, along with other residents of the senior living facility, will teach refugee children from Afghanistan how to read, write, and speak in English and other subjects such as arithmetic and science. (Angelica Edwards/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Afghan refugees find stability in senior communities

By Christopher Spata and Tampa Bay Times Christopher Spata - Associated Press

A vial of the Phase 3 Novavax coronavirus vaccine is seen ready for use in the trial at St. George's University hospital in London, Oct. 7, 2020. The Novavax COVID-19 vaccine that could soon win federal approval may offer a boost for the U.S. military: an opportunity to get shots into some of the thousands of service members who have refused the vaccine for religious reasons. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

New vaccine may be option for troops with religious concerns

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, foreground, inspects the U.S. Marine Air Station Futenma from the city hall in Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan Sunday, May 15, 2022. Okinawa on Sunday is marking the 50th anniversary of its return to Japan after 27 years of American rule on May 15, 1972, amid protests against a continued heavy U.S. military presence and lack of support from the mainland. (Kyodo News via AP)

Okinawa marks 50 years of end to US rule amid protests

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

In this image made from video, Japan's southern island of Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki speaks online Friday, May 6, 2022, from the prefectural capital of Naha ahead Okinawa's 50th anniversary of its reversion to Japan on May 15. Japan should do more for peaceful diplomacy with China and not just focus on arms deterrence as tensions rise around Taiwan to the west of Okinawa, said the southern island prefecture's governor Friday, demanding further reduction of its security burden and its risk hosting U.S. military there. (Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan via AP)

Japan’s Okinawa urges government to reduce China tensions

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro speaks at a news conference at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy, File)

New administration policy further undermines trust in military commanders

By Thomas Spoehr

In this file photo, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the fiscal year 2023 defense budget, Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Defense Secretary Austin open to non-binary persons enlisting in the Armed Forces

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Admiral John C. Aquilino, left, Commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), looks at videos of Chinese structures and buildings on board a US P-8A Poseidon reconaisance plane flying at the Spratlys group of islands in the South China Sea on Sunday March 20, 2022. A U.S. Navy plane carrying a top American military commander was threatened repeatedly by radio on Sunday to leave the airspace over Chinese-occupied island garrisons in the disputed South China Sea, but the aircraft pressed on defiantly with its reconnaissance in brief but tense standoffs witnessed by two Associated Press journalists invited onboard. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

U.S. admiral says China fully militarized isles

By Jim Gomez and Aaron Favila - Associated Press

In this undated file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, two Chinese SU-30 fighter jets take off from an unspecified location to fly a patrol over the South China Sea. China flew more than 30 military planes, including SU-30 fighter jets, toward Taiwan on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2021, the second large display of force in as many days.(Jin Danhua/Xinhua via AP) **FILE**

From Europe to Asia to South America, U.S. security guarantees stretch around the world

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

An Afghan boy flies a kite on hilltop overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Stranded by U.S., Afghan allies wonder if helping was a ‘mistake’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This image provided by The White House via Twitter shows President Joe Biden at Camp David, Md., Feb. 12, 2022. A new poll finds little support among Americans for a major U.S. role in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. President Joe Biden has acknowledged the growing likelihood of a new war in Eastern Europe will affect Americans even if U.S. troops dont deploy to Ukraine. Just 26% of Americans say the U.S. should have a major role in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.(The White House via AP, File)

Biden’s public refusal to send troops to fight in Ukraine a mistake, experts say

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden listens during an event in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Intel praised, Biden faulted in Ukraine crisis

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwanese sailors form up infront of newly commissioned navy minelayers in Kaohsiung city in southern Taiwan on Friday, Jan. 14, 2022. . (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP) **FILE**

Poll: Most voters support U.S. military defense of Taiwan, but not Ukraine

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times