Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s calls this week for withdrawal of all U.S. troops from the southern Philippines, as well as the suspension of joint U.S.-Philippine naval patrols in the South China Sea, have raised concerns about the countries’ relationship.

“The special forces, they have to go,” Duterte said during an oath-taking ceremony on Monday, according to the Philippine Star. “I do not want a rift with America. But they have to go.”

House and Senate Republicans are blasting an internal Pentagon memo that recommends “hardball” tactics to undermine House Speaker Paul Ryan’s defense spending bill.

The memo, obtained by Politico, recommends several tactics, including exploiting differences between House and Senate versions of the spending bill, “capitalizing on [the] discomfort” of a key Republican congressman, and using the threat of a presidential veto as a “weapon.”

The United States and India have signed a defense cooperation agreement many are calling a milestone in the strategic relationship between the two democracies.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday signed the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA), which provides for the reciprocal provision of logistical support and supplies such as food, water, fuel, medical services, and transportation.

Dozens of nuclear bombs stored at a Turkish air base “could fall into hostile hands or become targets for terrorist attacks,” according to a report released last week by a U.S. think tank.

Jointly operated by U.S. and Turkish forces, the Incirlik Air Base plays a key role in the support of air operations against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. It also serves as the storage site for about 50 U.S. tactical nuclear bombs.

YORKTOWN, Va.—Earlier this month I attended the U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area change of command and retirement ceremony for Vice Adm. William “Dean” Lee.

When the U.S. military in 1967 decommissioned and abandoned Camp Century—a secret base dug into the Greenland ice sheet eight years earlier—officials believed the equipment, fuel, and other waste left behind would remain entombed forever, deep in the glacier. But a study published earlier this month by a team of glaciologists raises concerns that the melting, shifting ice sheet could expose potentially toxic materials to the environment.

A Marine Corps officer fighting to stay in the service plans to use a Hillary Clinton defense.

Maj. Jason Brezler, a reserve officer and New York City firefighter, is challenging a board of inquiry determination that he failed to observe correct procedures for handling classified information. His attorney this week said he will use FBI Director James Comey’s recommendation not to indict Clinton for her mishandling of classified material as an argument that Brezler should be treated no differently.