View Online Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III Welcomes Indian Minister of Defense Rajnath Singh to the Pentagon April 11, 2022 SECRETARY OF DEFENSE LLOYD J. AUSTIN III: Well, Minister Singh, welcome to Washington, and it's great to see you again. It's a real pleasure to host you here at the Pentagon. We're meeting at a critical moment in the U.S.-India defense partnership, and thanks to decades of hard work, we have built the foundation of one of the most important partnerships of this century. Our partnership ...Continue Reading

View Online Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby Holds a Press Briefing April 8, 2022 PRESS SECRETARY JOHN F. KIRBY: All right. Good afternoon, everybody. A couple of things at the top. I think you all saw the secretary's statement expressing our gratitude to the government of Slovakia for their willingness to transfer an S-300 air defense missile system to Ukraine. In that statement, he also talked about our ability, willingness, and upcoming provision of a temporary deployment of a Patriot system into Slovakia so ...Continue Reading

View Online Senior Defense Official Holds a Background Briefing April 8, 2022 SENIOR DEFENSE OFFICIAL: OK, good afternoon, everybody. I appreciate your flexibility today. I know normally, we do these things in the morning, but it's just been that kind of a Friday, so we'll get right at it. Day 44. I know everybody's interested in this missile strike on the Kramatorsk train station. Obviously, we are not buying the denial by the Russians that they weren't responsible. I would note that they originally claimed a success ...Continue Reading

View Online Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks Engagement With Traveling Press in Los Angeles, California April 6, 2022 STAFF: So, I think we should just launch kind of into the discussion and the questions. We only have 15 minutes. We're doing it on record. Everybody's recording. I think, Patrick, you really had the broad scope questions kind of on the trip so we'll start with you. PATRICK TUCKER, DEFENSE ONE: Sure. So, just watching the interplay over the course of the trip, I heard a lot of people sitti ...Continue Reading

View Online Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks On-The-Record Press Roundtable, Los Angeles, California April 8, 2022 DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE KATHLEEN HICKS: Sure. So the -- much as we talked about yesterday, the goal to -- we hit many of the things we talked about yesterday, bottom line, which is, how do you look at these ecosystems that intersect to defense requirements and the capabilities we need? And those come from labs, as we saw at SLAC, combined with major research institutions, so SLAC has Sta ...Continue Reading

• NATO Allies agree to further strengthen and sustain support for Ukraine • Video: A new reality for our security Click here to view in your browser 8 April 2022 Update NATO Allies agree to further strengthen and sustain support for Ukraine NATO Foreign Ministers meeting in Brussels on 6-7 April 2022 agreed to sustain and further strengthen ...Continue Reading

View Online Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby Holds a Press Briefing April 6, 2022 PRESS SECRETARY JOHN F. KIRBY: Last night, I think you saw that the Biden administration authorizing an additional Presidential drawdown of security systems valued at up to an additional $100 million.  This $100 million is designed to help us meet an urgent Ukrainian need for additional javelin anti-armor systems, which the United States has been providing to Ukraine, I think as all know. And they've been used very, very effec ...Continue Reading

View Online Senior Defense Official Holds a Background Briefing April 6, 2022 SENIOR DEFENSE OFFICIAL: Okay, good morning, everybody. We'll get started. Don't have a whole lot to open up with. Day 42 -- more than 1,450 missile launches. We would assess that Russian forces near Kyiv and Chernihiv have completed their withdrawal from the area to re-consolidate and refit in Belarus and in Russia. We are not showing Russian forces in or around Kyiv or to the north Kyiv, and we're not showing Russian forces in or around Ch ...Continue Reading

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View Online Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby Holds a Press Briefing April 4, 2022 PRESS SECRETARY JOHN F. KIRBY: Hello, everybody. Seems a little higher than... Q: A little bit. MR. KIRBY: Yes, what the heck?  Let's put it Kirby size. There we go. All right. A couple of things to go through at the top and get at your questions. I think you saw on Friday, the department notified Congress of additional assistance activities under authority provided by the Ukraine security assistance initiative. USAI and under ...Continue Reading