Despite U.S. interest in deeper military ties with Vietnam, the Nov. 2 visit by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not yield an arms sales announcement.
As the Trump administration engages in a campaign of mass deportations, military experts and veterans say immigrant troops and their relatives are targets.
The Army’s training sites don’t replicate the terrain troops are most likely to fight on, such as the Baltic states and Taiwan, warns a U.S. Army officer.
The much-anticipated summit ended with a thud after the two leaders conceded they had failed to reach any agreements on how to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
Whether the U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska can lead to a deal to produce peace in Ukraine more than 3 1/2 years after Moscow's invasion remains to be seen.