Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has left no doubt that his top priority as leader of the military is making it more “lethal” — better at war and more prepared for it — and yet nothing about the military’s new mission at the U.S.-Mexico border advances that goal. Some argue it detracts from it.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press and Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
The U.S. Air Force’s top commander in the Asia-Pacific region said his troops haven’t changed the way they operate in response to North Korea’s assertion that it would have the right to shoot down U.S. bombers even in international airspace.