US and Israeli defense chiefs are expected on Thursday to discuss possible military exercises that would allegedly prepare for a so-called worst-case scenario to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities should diplomacy fail, a senior US official said. The scheduled US talks with visiting Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz follow an October ...
A Pentagon official says boosting Chinese Taipei’s military is an “urgent task” and crucial to deterring what the United States perceives as the threat of invasion by China. “Without question, bolstering Taiwan’s self-defenses is an urgent task and an essential feature of deterrence,” Ely Ratner, the US assistant secretary of ...
