View Online Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Hosted Enhanced Honor Cordon and Bilateral Meeting With Japanese Defense Minister Shinjirō Koizumi Jan. 15, 2026 SECRETARY OF WAR PETE HEGSETH: Well, Minister Koizumi, Shin, thank you for being here, welcome, and thanks for joining us this morning. We got up and showed the actual physical strength of the U.S.-Japanese alliance. We got a chance to work out with the Old Guard, one of our oldest units in the U.S. Army, the president's force and it was just a great dem ...Continue Reading

• Meeting of NATO Ministers of Defence – Brussels, 12 February 2026 Click here to view in your browser Press Release 15 January 2026 Meeting of NATO Ministers of Defence – Brussels, 12 February 2026 GENERAL Allied Defence Ministers will meet at NATO Headquarters in Brussel ...Continue Reading

View Online Remarks by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth at SpaceX Jan. 12, 2026 ELON MUSK:  Hello. Hello, everybody. All right. Welcome to Starbase, Texas. This — this is a city. It's actually legally a city that — thanks to the hard work of the SpaceX team we built out of nothing, and is now a gigantic rocket manufacturing system. So — and for people out there who are curious to see it, we're actually on a public highway so you can come and visit and driv ...Continue Reading

• NATO Secretary General address to the Renew Europe Group Click here to view in your browser Press Release 12 January 2026 NATO Secretary General address to the Renew Europe Group On Tuesday 13 January 2026, the NATO Secretary General, Mr Mark Rutte, will address the Renew Europe Global Europe Forum 2026 at the European Parliament. Media ...Continue Reading

• NATO Secretary General to visit Croatia Click here to view in your browser Press Release 9 January 2026 NATO Secretary General to visit Croatia On *Monday 12 January 2026*, the NATO Secretary General, Mr Mark Rutte, will visit Zagreb, Croatia where he will have bilateral meetings with the President, Mr Zoran Milanović, the Prim ...Continue Reading

• Secretary General joins meeting of the Coalition of the Willing Click here to view in your browser 9 January 2026 Update Secretary General joins meeting of the Coalition of the Willing On 6 January 2026, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte joined leaders during a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing in Paris. The meeting was co-hosted by the President of France Emmanuel Macron, and th ...Continue Reading

• NATO Deputy Secretary General to visit Portugal Click here to view in your browser Press Release 6 January 2026 NATO Deputy Secretary General to visit Portugal On* 7 and 8 January 2026*, the NATO Deputy Secretary General, Ms Radmila Shekerinska, will travel to Porto and Lisbon, Portugal. Ms Shekerinska will meet with the Minister of Sta ...Continue Reading

View Online Remarks by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth at Newport News Shipyard Jan. 5, 2026 SECRETARY OF WAR PETE HEGSETH: Well, good afternoon. How are we doing? Oh, man, it is great to see this beautiful group and to be here in Newport News and I want to thank all of you for what you do. That's why we're here. That's why we're launching the Arsenal of Freedom Tour. It's about all of you. Some of you are wearing a uniform. Some of you are not. All of you are wearing hard hats and all of you are contributing to the war ...Continue Reading

• Participation by the NATO Secretary General in a meeting of leaders on Ukraine Click here to view in your browser Press Release 5 January 2026 Participation by the NATO Secretary General in a meeting of leaders on Ukraine On Tuesday, 6 January 2026, the NATO Secretary General, Mr Mark Rutte, will travel to Paris, France, to participate in ...Continue Reading

• Secretary General's end of year message to NATO troops • Video - NATO's presence in Lithuania Click here to view in your browser 19 December 2025 Update Secretary General's end of year message to NATO troops Secretary General Mark Rutte sent holiday greetings to NATO troops on 19 December 2025, thanking ...Continue Reading