Pentagon Official at Center of Weapons Pause on Ukraine Wants U.S. to Focus on China
It was Colby, a 45-year-old grandson of a former Central Intelligence Agency director, who wrote a memo to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in early June outlining how Ukraine's requests for U.S. weapons could further stretch already depleted Pentagon stockpiles.
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