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President-elect Joseph R. Biden talks more about diplomacy than military spending, emphasizing the need to re-engage allies. Progressives in Congress are pressuring Mr. Biden to rein in Defense Department spending. speaks during a virtual meeting with members of his national security and foreign policy agency review teams at The Queen theater, Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Associated PRess)

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A Marine Corps M1A1 Abrams tank fires its main battle gun during a live-fire exercise at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Aug. 19, 2019. (U.S. Defense Department photo)

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Soldiers participate in live-fire gunnery qualification training at the Orchard Combat Training Center in Idaho, Feb.14, 2019. (U.S. Defense Department photo)

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Amazon vowed to continue its fight for Defense Department cloud computing services even after a comprehensive reevaluation of the October 2019 award to Microsoft. Amazon insisted last week that there are deeper principles at stake. (Associated Press)

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Screen capture from a Defense Department video showing Coast Guardsmen returning to safety aboard a cutter after a shark sighting. Video in the public domain via the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, https://www.dvidshub.net/ (LINK: https://www.dvidshub.net/video/764918/coast-guard-cutter-crews-encounter-shark-during-swim-call-while-patrolling-oceania)

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Maj. Gen. Jody Daniels, U.S. Army, is shown here in her official Defense Department photograph. (Photo in the public domain courtesy of the U.S. Army [https://www.usar.army.mil/News/Images/igphoto/2002071147/]

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Illustration on Defense Department interference with the Navy by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Paratroopers assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, moves fire the M240B machine gun during a combined arms live-fire exercise in support of Swift Response 19 in Novo Selo Training Area, Bulgaria, June 23, 2019. (U.S. Defense Department photo).

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The Trump administration plans to redirect some $7.2 billion in Defense Department money earmarked for construction, health and other military programs for border wall construction. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill expressed frustration with the decision. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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U.S. forces struck five sites in Iraq and Syria, a Defense Department spokesman said Sunday. Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper called the strikes successful. (Associated Press)

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The Defense Department conducted a flight test of a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile at San Nicolas Island, Calif. The test missile exited its ground mobile launcher and accurately impacted its target after more than 500 kilometers of flight. U.S. Defense Department photo.