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In this undated photo released on Dec. 31. 2021, by Xinhua News Agency, a carrier-based J-15 fighter jet takes off from the Chinese Navy's Liaoning aircraft-carrier during open-sea combat training in waters from the Yellow Sea to the East Sea and West Pacific. China's Liaoning aircraft carrier group has embarked on a &quot;realistic combat&quot; training mission in the Western Pacific, the Chinese navy said Tuesday, May 3, 2022. (Hu Shanmin/Xinhua via AP)

U.S. eyes new generation military tools for a potential clash with China

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

U.S. military's poor leadership putting illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Biden’s poor leadership putting U.S. military on dangerous ground

By Michael R. Pompeo

Fort Bragg shown, Feb. 3, 2022, in Fort Bragg, N.C. An independent commission is recommending new names for nine Army posts that were commemorated Confederate officers. Among their recommendations: Fort Bragg would become Fort Liberty and Fort Gordon would become Fort Eisenhower. The recommendations are the latest step in a broader effort by the military to confront racial injustice. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)

Naming Commission identifies new names for Army posts named for Confederates

By Ben Wolfgang and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 31, 2015, file photo, U.S. Marines fire the M777-A2 Howitzer down range during a training exercise at Camp Wilson, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif. As Russian forces struggle to gain any traction in their war against Ukraine, the Pentagon has provided Kyiv with 90 top-of-the-line 155mm M777 howitzers to aid in the fight and is running hundreds of Ukrainian troops through special training classes to get them up to speed on the systems. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Aaron S. Patterson/Released) **FILE**

Artillery leading the fight in Ukraine

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testifies before the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 11, 2022. After rebuffing U.S. requests for months, Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoygu spoke with Austin on May 13. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Rights group slams Pentagon review of fatal Syria airstrike

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Ukrainian sappers carry a Russian military drone backdropped by the Antonov An-225, world's biggest cargo aircraft destroyed by the Russian troops during recent fighting, at the Antonov airport in Hostomel, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

New age of war: Russia-Ukraine conflict reshapes battlefield

By Ben Wolfgang - 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

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

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