The Pentagon on Friday released its “National Military Strategy for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction.” The 30-page booklet “defines a strategic endstate, military strategic objectives, and the missions and means to achieve them,” wrote Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the foreword. The military strategy is meant to complement the National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction released in 2002.
Air Force Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost—a trailblazer and one of the first 10 women to reach a four-star rank across the U.S. military—retired and passed control of U.S. Transportation Command to Air Force Gen. Randall Reed on Oct. 4, finishing an eventful tenure at TRANSCOM.