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On October 14, US Defense Secretary Hegseth said at a military forum in Washington that the United States, facing rivals of comparable strength, is undertaking a military expansion that may be unprecedented; at the same event, Air Force Secretary Meinke stated explicitly that China is carrying out what may be the largest weapons expansion in world history.

US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall publicly admitted at a conference in National Harbor, Maryland, that the US Space Force currently possesses space control weapons deployed in orbit. This is the Pentagon's most explicit public statement to date regarding the US's deployment of weapons in space, aimed at protecting joint forces from threats posed by hostile adversaries.