Top U.S. and South Korean commanders inspected frontline positions within the DMZ amid increased North Korean construction and repeated crossings.
Pentagon shifts focus to the first island chain, strengthening U.S. Pacific defenses and military partnerships with Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines.
U.S. and South Korean recovery teams are searching waters off the Korean Peninsula for wreckage from three U.S. military aircraft that crashed during the Korean War.
South Korea pushes for a wartime command transfer timeline, while the U.S. insists military readiness must guide OPCON transition decisions.
Brig. Gen. Matthew Valas assumed command of Special Operations Command Korea as U.S. leaders stressed rising North Korean threats and allied readiness.
Command Sgt. Maj. Christopher Shaiko of the 2nd Infantry Division shakes the hand of Command Sgt. Maj. Ryan Boyd after Boyd walked down aircraft stairs as other soldiers look on.
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The Pentagon released its long-anticipated National Defense Strategy late Friday. The new document presents a sharp shift in U.S. military priorities by elevating defense of the homeland and the Western Hemisphere above countering China. The 34-page strategy breaks with approaches taken during both the Biden administration and President Donald Trump’s first term, arguing that past governments diluted U.S. power by pursuing “grandiose” global strategies rather than concrete American interests. It emphasizes securing U.S. access to the Panama Canal, the Gulf of Mexico, and Greenland in order to end the possibility of potentially hostile actors gaining influence over “key terrain” in the Western Hemisphere. China remains a…Open