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Pentagon rethinking how to array forces to focus on China

by Robert Burns
| February 18, 2021 12:06 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration faces a conundrum as it rethinks the positioning of military forces around the world: How to focus more on China and Russia without retreating from longstanding Mideast threats — and to make this shift with potentially leaner Pentagon budgets.

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