Israel has renewed its request for the Lebanese Army to raid several civilian homes in the south, claiming they contain military targets or weapons.

Such raids require political approval and judicial authorization.

The army plans to take Arab and foreign military attachés, as well as several ambassadors, on a tour next week to review the implementation of the first phase of its plan south of the Litani and its ongoing missions across Lebanon.

The military side of the [US-led ceasefire monitoring] mechanism meeting was less positive than the civilian side, after U.S. envoy Ortagus brought up remarks she conveyed from Netanyahu saying that the Lebanese Army is not carrying out its duties.

If you look at actual policies, Donald Trump is the true and rightful heir of Ronald Reagan.

Trump can and will take decisive military action as he sees fit to defend our nation's interest.

Let no country on Earth doubt that for a moment.

Make no mistake about it, Trump is hell-bent on maintaining and accelerating the most powerful military the world has ever seen.

The most powerful, the most lethal, and American-made. The arsenal of freedom.

We're also restoring the warrior ethos back to basics, readiness, accountability, standards, discipline, lethality.

We are the strength department, and we stand ready to wield that sword as President Tump directs.

Like President Reagan, President Trump is dedicated to both sides of the peace through strength coin.

Not just using that phrase as a thin veil for warmongering. In less than a year, President Trump has secured eight major peace deals.

The opposite of peace through strength is war through weakness.

Wokeness, weakness and war, all specialties of Joe Biden and Lloyd Austin.

I was recently tempted when the discussion went out about hitting drug boats to use the phrase, "Righteous strike."

But then my team counseled me against it and said, "Sir, that was the phrase used by Mark Milley when a family of Afghans was struck."

Weakness, wokeness, war.

The Department of War will not be distracted by democracy building, interventionism, undefined wars, regime change, climate change, woke moralizing, and feckless nation building.

We will deter war. We will advance our interests. We will defend our people.

Peace is our goal.

That is why we are prioritizing our fight over cartels.

You can just look at the news — not all of the news.

These narco-terrorists are the Al-Qaeda of our hemisphere, and we're hunting them with the same sophistication and precision that we hunted Al-Qaeda.

Under Trump’s leadership, relations between the U.S. and China are better and stronger than they have been for years.

The War Department is committed to the same approach — opening a wider range of military communications with the People's Liberation Army.

Allies that step up like Israel, South Korea, Poland, increasingly Germany, the Baltics, and others will receive our special favor.

Allies that still fail to do their part for collective defense will face consequences.