US is selling weapons to NATO allies to give to Ukraine, Trump says
After a pause in some weapons shipment, U.S. officials said this week that 155 mm munitions and precision-guided rockets were on their way.
By Illia Novikov, AP
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Pentagon shifts Greenland to US Northern Command in shakeup
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said the U.S. wants control of the Danish territory.
Lawmakers take key step towards getting Alwyn Cashe the Medal of Honor
The measure would waive rules blocking the award for the Iraq War hero.
3 more COVID cases linked to American’s bar crawl in Bavaria, shutdown of resort catering to US military personnel
Authorities in southern Germany have recorded three more COVID-19 infections in people who frequented bars visited by a 26-year-old American woman suspected of flouting quarantine rules in the Alpine resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
By Frank Jordans, The Associated Press
Esper punctuates WWII commemoration remarks with a warning to China
Defense Secretary Mark Esper finished his Indo-Pacific trip with remarks at the 75th anniversary commemoration of the end of World War II aboard the battleship where it happened.
The services have work to do when it comes to unconscious bias, SECDEF says
More than outright racist comments, troops tell Defense Secretary Mark Esper that they face unintentional insults.
China plans to double nuclear arsenal, Pentagon says
China plans to double its stockpile of nuclear warheads in the next decade, including those designed to be carried atop ballistic missiles that can reach the United States, the Pentagon said in a new report.
By Joe Gould
Esper, first SECDEF to travel to Palau, visits with Seabees and Marines
Esper visited World War II battle wreckage and sat down with senior government officials to talk security and threats from China.
Iraq War hero Alwyn Cashe should get Medal of Honor, Esper says
Cashe died after suffering severe injuries while pulling fellow soldiers out of a burning vehicle after an ambush in Iraq in 2005.
Trump repeats questionable NATO funding claims in GOP convention speech
President Donald Trump again claimed credit for an agreement by NATO members to increase spending on their own defense during his Republican convention speech.
By Joe Gould
Social distancing at sea, during the world’s largest naval exercise
Defense Secretary Mark Esper visited the amphibious assault ship Essex on Wednesday, part of a much scaled-down Rim of the Pacific exercise.
Esper visit to tiny Palau highlights US-China competition
No nation is too small or too distant from Washington, it seems, to be excluded from the Trump administration’s campaign to counter China’s efforts to supplant America as the dominant Pacific power.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press