• Secretary General welcomes Luxembourg’s NATO contributions, support to Ukraine • VIDEO - Protecting Allied critical undersea infrastructure Click here to view in your browser 8 December 2023 Update Secretary General welcomes Luxembourg’s NATO contributions, support to U ...Continue Reading

View OnlineDeputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh Holds a Press BriefingDec. 7, 2023DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY SABRINA SINGH: Hello. Good afternoon, everyone. I do have quite a few items at the top, so if you'll just bear with me, and then I'd be happy to jump in and start taking your questions.So earlier this week, as you may have seen, Secretary Austin gave opening remarks yesterday at the Ukraine Defense Industrial Base Conference held here in Washington, D.C. The conference connected relevant U.S. and Ukrainian i ...Continue Reading

View OnlineSecretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Hosted Bilateral in Honor of His Excellency Rustem Umerov, Minister of Defence for Ukraine at the PentagonDec. 7, 2023SECRETARY OF DEFENSE LLOYD J. AUSTIN III: Minister Umerov, Rustem, welcome back to the Pentagon. I had a great visit to Kyiv two weeks ago, and it's good to see you again so soon, especially on Ukraine's Armed Forces Day. During my trip to Kyiv, I had great discussions with President Zelenskyy, General Zaluzhny, and yourself.And one of the highlights was getti ...Continue Reading

View OnlineSecretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III Hosted Meeting in Honor of Pal Johnson, Minister for Defence of SwedenDec. 5, 2023SECRETARY OF DEFENSE LLOYD J. AUSTIN III: Well, Mr. Minister, welcome back to the Pentagon. It was great to see you briefly on Saturday in California at the Reagan National Defense Forum, and I'm glad that we'll get a chance to spend a bit more time together today.I had a great visit to Stockholm last April, and I wanted to thank you for your hospitality. We even got out on the water and ...Continue Reading

View OnlinePentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder Holds a Press BriefingDec. 5, 2023BRIGADIER GENERAL PAT RYDER: All right, good afternoon, everyone. I have quite a bit to share at the top today, so thank you in advance for your patience, then we'll get right to your questions.This morning, the Air Force announced that the search and rescue effort for the Air Force Special Operations Command Osprey aircraft mishap in Japan has transitioned to a search and recovery effort. Of the eight airmen onboard the aircraft ...Continue Reading

View OnlineSecretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III Welcomes Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu to the PentagonDec. 4, 2023SECRETARY OF DEFENSE LLOYD J. AUSTIN III:  Mr. Prime Minister, welcome to the Pentagon.It's a pleasure to have you here with us this morning.  And let me also welcome my good friend the defense minister. And also, welcome to the rest of your delegation as well.I had a great visit to Bucharest in 2021.  And your visit here today is an important reminder of the ...Continue Reading

View OnlineDeputy Pentagon Press Secretary Ms. Sabrina Singh Holds an Off-Camera, On-the-Record Press BriefingDec. 4, 2023DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY SABRINA SINGH:  Good morning, everyone.  Happy Monday.  It's pretty busy, so just to provide some information upfront and then we'll happily take questions.So, as probably most folks are tracking, there were four attacks against three separate commercial vessels yesterday that were operating in international waters in the southern Red Sea.The ...Continue Reading

• NATO Secretary General meets the Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Click here to view in your browser Press Release 4 December 2023 NATO Secretary General meets the Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg On Thursday 07 December 2023, the NATO Secretary General, Mr. Jens Stoltenberg, will receive the Prime Minister o ...Continue Reading

View OnlineAUKUS Defense Ministers Joint Press BriefingDec. 1, 2023STAFF:  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.  Thank you so much for joining us for today's AUKUS Defense Ministers Joint Press Briefing. It is my pleasure to introduce U.S. Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin III, Australia Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Richard Marles, and the United Kingdom Secretary of State for Defence, Grant Shapps.Each of the Ministers will deliver opening remarks, and then we'll ...Continue Reading

• Secretary General at COP28: climate change matters for our security, and therefore it matters to NATO • Ice Ice Navy – Patrolling Greenland on Denmark’s HDMS Triton Click here to view in your browser 1 December 2023 Update Secretary General at COP28: climate change matt ...Continue Reading