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The Pentagon is scrambling to fill a growing chasm in the recruitment ranks that next year will result in America's military being the smallest it has been since before the start of World War II.

Congress and the Pentagon are battling over a legal requirement to create a joint military task force in the Pacific needed for a possible future conflict with China, but so far the military is slow-rolling the mandate with a lesser force, according to lawmakers and congressional aides.

U.S. forces in the Pacific are increasing multinational military exercises over mounting fears among regional states over Chinese aggression, according to the admiral in charge of the Navy's largest fleet.

In a rare comment about a vessel that's part of the Navy's "Silent Service," the Pentagon on Monday confirmed that an Ohio-class submarine is now operating in the Middle East as part of the Biden administration's effort to keep the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas from spiraling out of control.

The admiral in line to be the first woman to head the U.S. Navy and the first to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff faced some familiar lines of questioning as a Senate confirmation hearing for Admiral Lisa M. Franchetti focused on the service's shipbuilding plans and maintenance headaches that have resulted in canceled deployments and reduced flying hours.

Scientists at the Pentagon's premier medical intelligence unit uncovered evidence during the COVID-19 pandemic suggesting that the outbreak of the disease was caused by a virus engineered at a now-infamous Chinese laboratory in Wuhan.

The aircraft carrier strike group led by the USS Ronald Reagan is deployed in waters off the east coast of Taiwan amid growing tensions with China over the recent U.S. visit by Taiwan's vice president, the U.S. Naval Institute reported this week.

A combined Russian and Chinese naval group practiced anti-submarine warfare near Alaska last week. It should serve as a wake-up call that hostile actors are developing their naval capabilities, but most in D.C. seem to keep hitting the snooze button.