• Allies practise air interoperability with Finland and Sweden • Video: NATO fighter jets secure the sky over eastern Europe Click here to view in your browser 15 April 2022 Update Allies practise air interoperability with Finland and Sweden NATO Allies and partners Finland and Sweden, have had a week of intensive cooperation in the skies ov ...Continue Reading

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View Online Defense Intelligence Agency Briefing on Challenges to Security in Space – 2022 April 12, 2022 TODD BREASSEALE: Hey, good afternoon, everyone. Today we're going to discuss the Defense Intelligence Agency's release of its latest, unclassified, foundational report, “Challenges to Security in Space 2022.”  This is the second edition of DIA’s series of reports designed to inform the public on key challenges and foreign military threats in space. DIA’s foundational reports foster informed dialogues between ...Continue Reading

View Online Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby Holds a Press Briefing, April 12, 2022 April 12, 2022 PRESS SECRETARY JOHN F. KIRBY: Yes, I'm not Kirby-late today. Wow! I knew I'd be facing your wicked stare-down, so I don't want to get the stink eye from Meghann. All right, nothing much at the top except just to let you know that the secretary had a chance this morning to speak with the Ukrainian minister of defense, Minister Reznikov. This follows a constant dialogue and conversation that the secretary has with t ...Continue Reading

View Online Senior Defense Official Holds a Background Briefing April 11, 2022 SENIOR DEFENSE OFFICIAL: Okay, good morning, everybody. (inaudible) here. Just go through some basic stuff. I know it's been a couple of days since we talked. Day 47 now. More than 1,500 missiles, which I know is roughly the same it was as when we talked on Friday. There hasn't -- there's been continued missile strikes over the weekend, but not many, and they're focusing their strikes -- they're striking mostly on the -- in the east, in the ...Continue Reading

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