President-elect Joe Biden will nominate retired Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III to be his Defense Secretary, the transition team announced Dec. 8. Austin, who left the military in 2016 as the four-star head of U.S. Central Command, would be the first-ever Black man to ...
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The End of Nuclear “Kick the Can”
After years of declining investment, NATO members’ spending on defense is rebounding. But frictions persist.