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In this file photo, an unmanned Army surveillance blimp floats through the air while dragging a tether line just south of Millville, Pa., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. The Pentagon will spend millions of dollars on a fleet of high-tech surveillance blimps to help control the flow of narcotics and illegal immigrants along the border with Mexico. (Jimmy May/Bloomsburg Press Enterprise via AP) **FILE**

Pentagon to spend more than $50 million for blimps on the border

A-29 Super Tucano planes are on display during a handover from the NATO-led Resolute Support mission to the Afghan army at the military Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 17, 2020. A year-old report by Washingtons Afghanistan watchdog warned in early 2021, months before President Joe Biden announced the end to America's longest war, the Afghan air force would collapse without critical U.S. aid, training and American maintenance. The report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko was classified back when it was written and only declassified on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Watchdog agency warned of Afghan Air Force collapse long before U.S. withdrawal

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 14, 2022. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

U.S. intel says Russia sending agents into Ukraine to prepare for possible invasion

This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) ** FILE **

Pentagon opens probe into whether extremists are getting into the military

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a media briefing at the Pentagon, Nov. 17, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Defense chief Austin cleared of COVID-19, returns to Pentagon

Honolulu Board of Water Supply chief engineer Ernest Lau points at a map during a meeting in Honolulu on July 27, 2016, to show where the Navy plans to build wells to monitor potential contamination from giant military fuel storage tanks. U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz said the EPA should step in after the Navy disputed the Hawaii Department of Health's analysis of fuel contamination at a well that provides drinking water to the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam's water system. Lau said the Navy informed the city agency on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021, that a high level of diesel fuel was found in samples of the Aiea-Hala­wa water shaft. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy, File)

Mold, contaminated water and corruption: A year of military housing headaches for the Pentagon

This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) ** FILE **

Tattoos, clothes, car stickers: Pentagon’s anti-extremism push targets more than just social media

President Joe Biden steps off Marine One at Gordons Pond in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Monday, Dec. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden signs annual defense policy bill into law

Members of the Texas Army National Guard stand by as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and 10 other governors hold a press conference at Anzalduas Park on Oct. 6, 2021, in Mission, Texas. Texas' Republican governor on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin the state will not direct National Guard members to follow a COVID-19 vaccine order as GOP opposition to the mandate across the U.S. military grows. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP)

Pentagon goes to court to defend COVID-19 vaccine mandate for troops

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin pauses while speaking during a media briefing at the Pentagon on Nov. 17, 2021, in Washington. Oklahoma's Republican governor and the state attorney general are suing in federal court to exempt the state's National Guard from a Biden administration COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Gov. Kevin Stitt argued in a statement Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, that the Biden administration's Defense Department overstepped its constitutional authority by subjecting the National Guard to the mandate it imposed on the active-duty military. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Pentagon anti-extremism rules target service members on social media

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a media briefing at the Pentagon, Nov. 17, 2021, in Washington. The Air Force has discharged 27 people for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, making them what officials believe are the first service members to be removed for disobeying the mandate to get the shots. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Pentagon issues rules aimed at stopping rise of extremism

Staff Sgt. Travis Snyder, left, receives the first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine given at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, Dec. 16, 2020, south of Seattle. The Army says 98% of its active duty force had gotten at least one dose of the mandatory coronavirus vaccine as of this week’s deadline for the shots. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) **FILE**

Thousands of soldiers miss vaccine deadline as Army weighs mass purge

In this file photo, U.S. Army medic Kristen Rogers of Waxhaw, N.C. fills syringes with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in North Miami, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier) **FILE**

As Army hits mandate deadline, services ponder next moves

Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., center, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, right, pay their respects during a ceremony to honor the life of Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, as he lies in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021 in Washington. (Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Iran nukes on the agenda for Pentagon discussions between U.S., Israel defense chiefs

In this undated file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, two Chinese SU-30 fighter jets take off from an unspecified location to fly a patrol over the South China Sea. China flew more than 30 military planes, including SU-30 fighter jets, toward Taiwan on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2021, the second large display of force in as many days.(Jin Danhua/Xinhua via AP) **FILE**

Pentagon warns China is preparing for military campaign to take over Taiwan

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The Pentagon said it was putting more troops on notice to be ready to ship out if they need to quickly deploy to Europe.

Putin bides time on Ukraine, banks on U.S., NATO divisions →

On Friday, the White House and the Pentagon said Russia already has sent military and intelligence operatives into the area of eastern Ukraine controlled by rebel forces to carry out acts of sabotage and blame them on Kyiv in a “false flag” operation to create a pretext for an invasion.

Britain supplying Ukraine with anti-tank weapons →

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