Secretary Mattis says deterrence is dynamic, changing "from year to year, from decade to decade".
Mattis, although emphasizing continuous U.S. support, did not give a timeline on the arrival of the anti-tank weapons.
The Russian government appeared to suggest Tuesday that the U.S. military had a role in a recent attack on two Russian military bases in Syria, an attack that Russia said involved 13 armed drones, a notion immediately rejected by the Pentagon, according to CNN.
In response to questions from The New York Times, Pentagon officials this month acknowledged the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which began as part of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Officials insisted that the effort had ended after five years, in 2012.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise allowed a Russian defense agency to review the inner workings of cyber defense software used by the Pentagon to guard its computer networks, according to Russian regulatory records and interviews with people with direct knowledge of the issue, according to a special report by Reuters.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expects that his talks with U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis, scheduled for August 24 in Kyiv, will be extremely important for strengthening Ukraine's defense capability, according to an UNIAN correspondent.