Dec. 5, 2024 China Increasing Interest in Strategic Arctic Region The Arctic strategic environment is changing profoundly, and the United States must pay greater attention and dedicate more resources to this crucial area, a Defense Department official said.
June 21, 2023 Somali President, Austin Discuss Future, Partnership During Pentagon Meeting Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III welcomed Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to the Pentagon, praising him for real progress at a very dangerous time.
April 21, 2023 DOD Makes Climate Assessment Tool Available to Partner Nations Giving partner nations access to the Climate Assessment Tool enhances national resilience against climate change by enabling the same quality in our partners and allies, one of the developers of the tool said.
April 5, 2023 Arctic Heating Up Literally and as Scene of Strategic Competition Climate change is literally warming the Arctic; figuratively, the region is becoming a theater of great power competition.
March 16, 2023 DOD Integral in Western Hemisphere Combating Climate Change While the Western Hemisphere is a vast area with many different peoples, environments, cultures, resources and concerns, all have one overarching concern: climate change, Daniel P. Erikson, the Defense Department's point man for the region, said.
Dec. 14, 2022 Southcom Capitalizes on Interagency Cooperation U.S. Southern Command has generations of interagency experience that other combatant commands can learn from, Army Gen. Laura Richardson, the U.S. Southcom commander, said.
Dec. 14, 2022 Austin: Listening to African Partners Critical to Development of Productive Relationships  How the Defense Department approaches its activities on the African continent is remarkably similar to how it approaches its activities elsewhere in the world, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said.
Dec. 7, 2022 U.S. Officials Listen to Concerns of African Leaders In advance of next week's U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for African Affairs detailed how DOD and U.S. Africa Command are working with the nations of the diverse and expansive continent.
Dec. 1, 2022 U.S., French Presidents State Support for Ukraine, Global Security The United States, France, other partner nations and NATO stand firm in support of Ukraine's defense against Russia's brutal invasion, President Joe Biden said.
Nov. 29, 2022 U.S.-Colombia Defense Leaders to Discuss Security, Migration, Climate Change Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said he looks forward to continuing discussions with Colombian Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez after their meeting at the Pentagon.