The blistering GOP divide over the Trump administration’s war policies burst into the open Monday, with Rep. Thomas Massie, Kentucky Republican, moving to force a House vote on eight articles of impeachment against Mr. Hegseth, accusing him of illegally waging war against Iran and abusing his authority at the Pentagon.

Mr. Massie had initially introduced the impeachment resolution in September, but House Speaker Mike Johnson, Louisiana Republican, recessed the chamber before lawmakers could vote. A vote could now come within days, although Republican leaders could still offer a motion to table the impeachment resolution, a move that would need to pass by a simple majority.

Many Republicans, including Vice President J.D. Vance, have blamed the Iran war for the party’s midterm wipeout. Despite the backlash from within his own party, President Trump said he has “every intention to keep” Mr. Hegseth at the Pentagon. In addition to the Iran issue, the impeachment articles raise concerns over the U.S. operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and military action in Yemen.

The first direct talks between officials from Moscow and Kyiv since February have begun in the United Arab Emirates, with U.S. officials pushing for the two sides to find a peaceful end to Russia’s five-year-long military invasion of Ukraine.

Officials say the security-focused talks, which opened Tuesday in Abu Dhabi, aim to build on negotiations last week in Brussels among Ukrainian, European and U.S. representatives that focused on post-war guarantees for Kyiv. Mr. Trump last week floated a large-scale security agreement that could involve all of Europe, not just Ukraine.

Representatives of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, NATO and the European Commission met ahead of the talks. Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and a member of the U.S. delegation, said in a statement that “any future arrangements must respect sovereignty, territorial integrity, independent decision-making and provide credible security guarantees for Ukraine.”

The FBI probe into a suspected Chinese spying operation in which Beijing intelligence is accused of recruiting an agent who had an affair with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang follows years of warnings by the bureau to the Silicon Valley tech industry about Chinese espionage. National Security Correspondent Bill Gertz offers a deeper dive, reporting that many U.S. tech leaders ignored the warnings, viewing basic security as a nuisance.

“Now the Valley has to listen,” says John Schindler, a former National Security Agency counterintelligence official. “This scandal demands a relook at Chinese intelligence operations against Democrat politicians in the nearby Bay Area — most infamously the disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell, who got honey-trapped by a China Doll spy just like Huang did.”

Nicholas Eftimiades, a former Defense Intelligence Agency counterintelligence official, says the case against Mr. Huang highlights the aggressive Chinese whole-of-society approach to conducting espionage, economic espionage and covert influence operations. “Chinese attempts to covertly influence American society are pervasive, ranging from local governments through federal and academic institutions and key industries,” Mr. Eftimiades said.

Unidentified and unauthorized drones have been a growing problem for U.S. military bases in recent years. In March, at least a dozen jam-resistant drones hovered over the flight line at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana for at least four hours a day over several days.

The Trump administration announced an expanded effort Monday involving the Pentagon and the departments of Transportation, Energy and Homeland Security to coordinate counter-drone operations to protect U.S. airspace. Officials said existing collaboration between the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies has already involved a temporary flight restriction along the southern U.S. border and a comprehensive safety assessment of the Pentagon’s high-energy laser counter-drone system.

Mr. Hegseth said in a statement that “with this whole-of-government approach, the [Defense Department] is rapidly fielding cutting-edge capabilities to safeguard our Southern border and harden critical military installations.” 

The Democratic Party “remains ideologically diverse,” but the “romanticization of communist imagery reveals a troubling historical amnesia,” according to Miles Yu, who writes that “the West’s greatest strategic failure” has been its “persistent misunderstanding of Chinese communism.”

“Generations of American strategists, politicians, academics and business elites have embraced a comforting fiction: Soviet communism was ideologically genuine, while Chinese communism was essentially Chinese nationalism dressed in Marxist-Leninist clothing,” writes Mr. Yu, director of the China Center at the Hudson Institute.

“Beijing’s ambitions, they believe, sprang from national humiliation and rejuvenation, not the revolutionary mission of a Leninist party seeking to transform the international order,” he writes in his biweekly “Red Horizon” column for The Washington Times. “This delusion seduced even America’s fiercest anti-communist strategists. They interpreted the Sino-Soviet split as a triumph of Chinese nationalism over communist internationalism, overlooking the ideological struggle at its core.”

• Nov. 10 — China, America and the Fragmentation of the Global Economy: A Conversation with Aaron Friedberg, American Enterprise Institute

• Nov. 10 — 2026 Homeland Security Summit, Potomac Officers Club

• Nov. 10 — Elisabeth Braw on ‘Undersea War’ and the Battle over Cables and Pipelines, Atlantic Council

• Nov. 16 — The Black Sea Blueprint for Taiwan: Lessons in Asymmetric Naval Warfare, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

• Nov. 17 — Special Threat Status Event: The Golden Age of Space, Threat Status

• Nov. 18 — Rebuilding the Arsenal of Freedom and Reindustrializing America, Hudson Institute

• Nov. 20-22 — Halifax International Security Forum in Nova Scotia, Canada, HFX