The Biden administration on Sunday activated the Civil Reserve Air Fleet to evacuate people from Afghanistan, although the flights will not directly head to the beleaguered South Asian nation. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, according to a Pentagon news release, activated the fleet and is asking U.S. airlines and charter carriers to take Americans, Afghans who worked…
Biden Admin Activates Emergency Civil Reserve Air Fleet for Afghanistan Evacuations
Biden Administration Activates Emergency Civil Reserve Air Fleet for Afghanistan Evacuations
August 22, 2021
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The Biden administration on Sunday activated the Civil Reserve Air Fleet to evacuate people from Afghanistan, although the flights will not directly head to the beleaguered South Asian nation. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, according to a Pentagon news release, activated the fleet and is asking U.S. airlines and charter carriers to take Americans, Afghans who worked…
LIVE: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley Hold News Conference
LIVE: Secretary of Defense Austin and Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Milley Give Update on Afghanistan
Biden Defense Secretary Doesn’t Plan to Resign Over Afghanistan Debacle
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has not offered to resign over the situation in Afghanistan, a Pentagon official said Monday. “No,” John Kirby, a Department of Defense spokesperson, told reporters in Washington when asked if Austin had offered his resignation to President Joe Biden over the debacle in the Middle Eastern country, or if he intended…
Pentagon to Require COVID-19 Vaccine for Troops
The Department of Defense will require all active-duty military members to get a COVID-19 vaccine, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Monday. The requirement could be in place in the coming days, Austin said in a memo sent to all Pentagon employees that was obtained by The Epoch Times. “I want you to know that…
Pentagon Chief in Vietnam to Advance Ties but Rights Concerns Linger
July 29, 2021
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HANOI—U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sought on Thursday to nudge forward security ties with Vietnam that have been slowly deepening as both countries watch the Chinese regime’s activities in the South China Sea with growing alarm. Despite closer military relations, more than four decades after the Vietnam War ended in 1975, President Joe Biden’s administration…
US and European Leaders Warn About China Setting Standards on AI
July 15, 2021
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Top U.S. and European leaders recently spoke about how democracies should set the rules for artificial intelligence (AI), instead of an authoritarian regime like China. “We cannot let China write the rules of the road around AI,” said U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo at the Global Emerging Technology Summit in Washington on June 13. The…
China’s Snub of US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Is Our Problem, and Beijing’s
Commentary U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has repeatedly requested, since Biden’s presidency, a meeting with China’s top military officer, only to be rebuffed, according to information revealed by U.S. defense officials in a May 21 Financial Times report. Beijing’s snub of Mr. Austin is being interpreted by some, optimistically, as a petty bureaucratic rivalry….
No Plan to Shoot Down Chinese Rocket—Pentagon Chief
May 7, 2021
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WASHINGTON—U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Thursday there was no plan at this point to shoot down the remnants of a large Chinese rocket expected to plunge through the atmosphere this weekend. The Long March 5B rocket blasted off from China’s Hainan island on April 29, carrying the Tianhe module, which contains what will…
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