China continues to present the most comprehensive and serious challenge to U.S. national security, Ely S. Ratner, assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs, said.
The Pentagon, Congress and the industrial base must work together to deliver combat-credible capabilities to the warfighter at speed and scale to deter aggression and win if called on to fight.
In addition to honing key counterterrorism capabilities, the special operations community has maintained its roots in deterring and defeating strategic threats, the U.S. Special Operations Command commander said.
The situation in Haiti requires an international solution that also includes the Haitian perspective, the commander of U.S. Southern Command said.
Ukraine will not back down in the face of the Russia’s invasion and neither will the U.S., Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said before a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.
U.S. Special Operations Command will integrate its current strengths with new domains, new technologies and new processes to perform its crucial mission even better, the command’s senior enlisted leader said.
A U.S. delegation met with Nigerien officials, expressing concerns over Niger’s potential relationships with Russia and Iran, as well as the status of U.S. forces in the country, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. will depart for Germany to participate in the 20th iteration of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.
