India, June 7 -- In Pete Hegseth's words, the Trump administration would end what he called 'four years of deferred maintenance under the Biden administration' that led to the world seeing, 'unfortunately, a feckless and weak America.'

The Annual Threat Assessment 2025 of the U.S. Intelligence Community contends that "Russia, China, Iran and North Korea-individually and collectively-are challenging U.S. interests in the world by attacking or threatening others in their regions, with both asymmetric and conventional hard power tactics, and promoting alternative systems to compete with the United States, primarily in trade, finance, and security."

So, the threats and adversaries remain the same, those that the Biden administration intende...