Pentagon is without a chief as US faces many global threats

It's a difficult time for the Pentagon to be without a permanent US defense secretary. The Trump administration is grappling with an escalating crisis with Iran, an unusual and controversial deployment of troops to the US-Mexico border, the nearly two-decade-old war in Afghanistan and stalled talks with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program.

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