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In this image provided by the U.S. Army, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley meets with U.S. Army leaders responsible for the collective training of Ukrainians at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Grafenwoehr, Germany, on Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. At left is Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Hilbert, who is the commanding general for the 7th Army Training Command. Milley visited the training site in Germany for Ukrainian forces and met with troops and commanders. (Staff Sgt. Jordan Sivayavirojna/U.S. Army via AP)

Top heavy: U.S. military bloated by brass as officer-to-enlisted ratio dwarfs Cold War era

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

The roughly 900 generals and admirals on active duty today is far fewer than it was in past eras, but the percentage of those officers compared with the number of enlisted troops is near the highest level in modern military history, according to Congressional Research Service data. (Associated Press)

GOP seeks to balance top-heavy military

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Japanese Ground-Self Defense Force (JGDDF) Type 90 tank fires its gun at a target during an annual drill exercise at the Minami Eniwa Camp in Eniwa, Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Dec. 7, 2021. Japan warned of escalating national security threats stemming from Russia’s war on Ukraine and China’s tensions with Taiwan in an annual defense paper issued Friday, July 22, 2022, as Japan tries to bolster its military capability and spending. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) **FILE**

Regional defense partnerships rise with China’s power

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Hawaii Gov.Josh Green speaks at a news conference in Honolulu on Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. The U.S. military and Hawaii officials said Friday the Air Force has returned 363 acres (147 hectares) it leased on Molokai Island to the Department of Hawaiian Homelands, opening the possibility Native Hawaiians could move onto the land. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

U.S. military returns land on Molokai Island to Hawaii

By AUDREY McAVOY - Associated Press

In an image taken from video, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian speaks during a media briefing Thursday, March 10, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo, File)

China’s outspoken Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian relegated to obscure government position

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Residents wearing face masks walk by a large screen showing the Chinese People's Liberation Army Airforce outside a mall in Beijing, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. The Chinese military held large-scale joint combat strike drills starting Sunday, sending war planes and navy vessels toward Taiwan, both the Chinese and Taiwanese defense ministries said. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

U.S. defeats China in simulated war over Taiwan, but costs are high, says new study on risks

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Gen. Paul J. LaCamera, center, commander of the U.S. Forces Korea attends the activation ceremony for the United States Space Forces Korea in Pyeongtaek, South Korea Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. U.S. military set up space-monitoring organizations, United States Space Forces Korea, in South Korea, aiming to keep an eye on North Korea's nuclear and missile activity as its capabilities continue to improve. (Song Kyung-Seok/Pool Photo via AP)

U.S. military creates space unit in SKorea amid NKorea threats

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

In this image provided by the U.S. Army, recent Army basic combat training graduates have their temperatures taken as they arrive at Fort Lee, Va, on March 31, 2020, after being transported using sterilized buses from Fort Jackson, S.C. COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on military recruiting, shuttering enlistment stations around the country and forcing thousands of recruiters to woo potential soldiers online. Recruiters have had to abandon their normal visits to high schools and malls, and instead rely almost exclusively on social media to reach young people. (U.S. Army via AP) **FILE**

House GOP falls short in effort to get Pentagon info on ‘woke’ policies

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

American military planes and support facilities are seen at the Al Udeid Air Base outside Doha, Qatar, March 17, 2002. Qatar will be on the world stage like it never has before as the small, energy-rich nations hosts the 2022 FIFA World Cup beginning this November. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Qatar was well known by Pentagon long before global soccer spotlight

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Ukrainian soldiers fire a cannon at Russian positions in the frontline near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/LIBKOS)

House Democrats block Republicans’ push for oversight of Ukraine aid

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

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