Two U.S. soldiers killed in Syria ISIS attack identified as Iowa National Guard members. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth vows overwhelming force response.

The U.S. military has conducted at least 25 strikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific on the basis that the small watercraft were trying to smuggle drugs into the United States. But as it turns out,

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I fully support that strike,” Hegseth said during his remarks at the Reagan National Defense Forum on Saturday. “I would have made the same call myself.”

Today the U.S. faces two nuclear peer adversaries, China and Russia, both global and ideologically hostile powers like the Soviet Union. And they are working together. Mr. Trump is so far making concessions to both and is spending less on defense as a share of the economy than Jimmy Carter did in 1979.

The U.S. military says it attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four people