A National Guard program that pairs U.S. troops with peers from abroad to build the capacity of foreign militaries has strong support among Pentagon leaders, but the department has no plans to boost the small budget for such efforts by curtailing multibillion-dollar procurement programs like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a senior defense official said today. Kathleen Hicks, the Defense Department's No. 2 policy official, was asked about the prospect of such a shift during a National Guard conference on...
