🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "Top US military officials are pushing back against Secretary of War Hegseth's new Pentagon strategy, which shifts focus to homeland defense, cuts emphasis on China and overseas commitments, and signals major command restructuring.

The officials argue Hegseth's plan is short-sighted and overly political. The major issue with the plan is it risks weakening US deterrence as China’s military grows and Russia remains aggressive," - The Washington Post.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- The Times of Israel believes Envoy Steve Witkoff will step-down by 2026 as a Gaza deal nears finalization.

🇺🇸🇶🇦⚡- The large-number of aerial refueling tankers that arrived in the UK yesterday have now departed towards Qatar.

At least seven are heading towards the Middle East, with all dragging fighter jets.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says "The Israeli army will remain in most of Gaza."

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- Additional US KC-135R tankers have arrived over UK airspace.

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡- Qatar and Egypt have delivered the Trump-Gaza peace deal to Hamas, with Hamas currently reviewing it.

A trilateral meeting between Qatar, Turkey and Hamas is scheduled for later today once Hamas finishes reviewing the peace plan.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- An Israeli AH-64 "Saraf" attack helicopter was filmed over Gaza City engaging targets with its autocannons.

🇺🇸🇶🇦🇮🇱⚡- "Qatar is satisfied with the US security guarantees it received in the aftermath of the [Israeli] attacks on Doha," - Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- Scenes from RAF Prestwick, Scotland.

🇺🇸⚡️- Scenes from Quantico, Virginia where President Trump will be meeting with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and hundreds of other high-ranking senior military officers from a multitude of different branches.

🇺🇸⚡️- Ahead of this meeting, President Trump has said he will fire any military leaders "on the spot" if he doesn't like them.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has taken the stage at Marine Corps Base Quantico to address the unprecedented gathering of US military leadership.

🇺🇸⚡️- "If you don't like what I have to say, you're free to leave the room. You'll lose your rank and your future, but.. you can be loose. Just have a good time." - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- "There can be no higher honor than to serve as your Commander-in-Chief. I just look at you and you're just amazing people. To each and every one of you, I thank you for your unwavering devotion to your country.

🇺🇸⚡️- "When we changed it [The Department] from War to Defense, that's when we went woke. In the end, we changed it." - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump is grandstanding about his name changes; Gulf of America, Department of War, etc.

Are you not sick of it?

🇺🇸⚡️- "We wanna have no new wars, but we've settled 7 wars, maybe 8 since yesterday. Hamas has really gotta agree. But all of the Arab nations have agreed. Israel has agreed. War is very strange!" - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- "That's a big part of the earth." - President Trump on the Middle East.

🇺🇸⚡️- "We're reawakening the warrior spirit, and this is a spirit that won and built this nation. From the cavalry that tamed the great plains to the ferocious, unyielding power of Patton, Bradley, and the great general Douglas MacArthur. As President, I have your backs 100%." - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- "We're going to make our military stronger, tougher, faster, fiercer, and more powerful than it has ever been before." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- "I sent a nuclear submarine over the coast of Russia... just to be careful. We can't let people throw around that word. I call it the N-Word. There are two N-words, and you can't use either of them." - President Trump.