A1C Jerome D. Miller Jr., 23, of Washington, D.C., died due to a non-combat-related incident in Parwan province, Afghanistan, the Defense Department announced Monday. Miller was assigned to the 459th Security Forces Squadron at JB Andrews, Md. He died on Oct. 13, according to DOD.
While U.S. defense officials have spent much of the past decade warning that China is the nation’s pacing threat and its People’s Liberation Army represents an urgent threat in the Indo-Pacific, several defense researchers are skeptical that the PLA has the human capital, the structural ability, or the political appetite…