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U.S. Secretary for Defense Lloyd J. Austin III speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys) **FILE**

Democrats move to expand abortion rights for military women after court ruling

In this Sept. 18, 2012, photo, female soldiers from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division train on a firing range while testing new body armor in Fort Campbell, Ky. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) ** FILE **

Bitter showdown ahead over Democrats’ plans to include women in the draft

FIM-92 STINGER MAN PORTABLE AIR-DEFENSE SYSTEM - Sgt. Zane Pettibone and Spc. Svenson Albert, a Stinger Man-Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS) team with 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, conduct engagement sequences and the 13 critical checks of the Stinger Man-Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS), as part of the multinational live-fire training exercise Shabla 19, June 11, 2019. Shabla 19 is designed to improve readiness and interoperability between the Bulgarian Air Force, Navy and Land Forces, and the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, U.S. Army Europe. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Thomas Mort)

Fog of war: U.S. slaps down Russian claims that arms meant for Ukraine went missing in Syria

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the Pentagon, Thursday, June 2, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin holds first face-to-face talks with Chinese counterpart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The fog of the 2023 defense budget

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