US and Pakistan officials ended five days of consultation on May 5. Eric Edelman, the Pentagon’s policy chief, and retired Lt. Gen. Tariq Waseem Ghazi, Pakistan’s Secretary Defense, led the 17th annual meeting of the US and Pakistan defense consultative group. Issues ranged from training activities to procurement of US equipment and counter-terror efforts.
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command has two new squadrons of F-35s at its disposal in Alaska just as “quite a bit of action” has taken place in the combatant command’s area of responsibility and the “advanced threats” there are becoming “more lethal,” said the squadrons’ wing commander, Col. David J. Berkland. Berkland’s…