Air Force F-16s landed this past week at a military base in Serbia on a visit as part of US and Serbian military cooperation, reports Agence France Presse news service. And, it was just seven years ago that US airmen fought a 78-day air war over Slobodan Milosevic’s Serbia as part of the NATO-led Operation Allied Force. The Milosevic-less Belgrade has opted to join NATO’s Partnership for Peace program.
Navy Adm. Samuel J. Paparo Jr. assumed leadership of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, succeeding Navy Adm. John Aquilino at a change of command ceremony, urging action amid China's “increasing intrusive and expansionist claims,” on May 3