The U.S. will stand firmly behind Israel as it responds to the "great evil" perpetrated by Hamas terrorists last week, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Friday, urging the rest of the world to reject any notion of "neutrality" in the unfolding conflict.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin insisted Tuesday that almost $45 billion in U.S. security assistance to Ukraine has been accounted for, a day after Kyiv dismissed all six of its deputy defense ministers as part of an anti-corruption purge.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is shuffling his senior military advisers at the Pentagon to fill vacant top-level positions as an ongoing feud with Sen. Tommy Tuberville over the Defense Department's abortion policy shows no signs of resolving.
Pushing entrenched Russian troops out of their territory will be more of a long-distance marathon than a sprint for Ukraine's attacking forces, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday, as NATO and allied defense ministers meeting in Brussels cleared the way for Ukrainian pilots to begin training to fly coveted U.S. F16 fighters jets.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told newly commissioned officers at the U.S. Naval Academy on Friday that they are ready to "defend our democracy with honor, courage and commitment."