A spokesman for President-elect Donald Trump's transition team told reporters Wednesday it is "premature" to discuss Trump's defense priorities after an internal Defense Department memo surfaced a day earlier. In the Dec. 1 memo, obtained by Foreign Policy , acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Brian McKeon writes that during a recent meeting, Mira Ricardel, the head of Trump's defense "landing team," outlined the incoming administration's priorities as developing a strategy to destroy the Islamic State of Iraq and...
