An ex-Navy officer pleaded guilty to participating in an insurance fraud scheme that stole $2 million from a program meant to aid seriously injured trrops.
A top Pentagon pick for President Biden has criticized the Obama administration’s response to Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea as “too slow and too incremental.”
The U.S. and Japan are close to signing a new five-year pact for Japan to support U.S. military forces in the country and a new agreement to research and develop new defense technologies.