Topic - Mark T. Esper

"We are now in this era of great-power competition, and it's time that we woke up and addressed it, and that we compete much more vigorously with China than we had been," Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said Wednesday during a speech at this year's virtual Aspen Security Forum.

Planned Taiwan visit escalates tensions between U.S., China →

The nearly 4,500 members of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment now in Europe, Mr. Esper said, will return to the U.S.

U.S. military plans to move European headquarters from Germany to Belgium →