The Defense Department is working with other government agencies, allies and friends to strengthen deterrence across the Taiwan Strait to ensure peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region.
Continued air defense support was a key topic during a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Germany, where new Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov attended the gathering for the first time.
Pentagon leaders gathered input from service members and their spouses, child development experts and early childhood educators to improve the Defense Department’s child care programs.
Nearly 81,000 American service members remain missing after having served in several wars. During an event at the Pentagon, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks vowed the DOD would never stop looking for them.
Innovation in logistics is key to the nation’s ability to deter aggression as it meets new and growing threats, a leader from the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment said.
The U.S. has more than 1,000 troops in Niger who had been participating alongside Nigerien troops in counterterrorism operations and security force assistance training.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III welcomed Bahrain’s Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, one day after the U.S. and Bahrain signed the Comprehensive Security Integration Agreement.
Bringing home the remains of those missing in action is America’s sacred duty. A site in Germany is just one of many across the globe where the DOD is searching for missing U.S. service members from past conflicts.
