Acting Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper STAFF: (inaudible) We’re going to go about 25 minutes. We've got to do some calls, but on the record, conversation with the secretary. ACTING SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MARK T. ESPER: Well, I think we're on European time now, so I will say good afternoon and thank you for [...]
Acting Secretary Of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan; Portuguese Minister of National Defense João Cravinho ACTING SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PATRICK SHANAHAN: Mr. Minister, welcome to the Pentagon. Always good to see you and be able to spend some time together and talk about very meaningful issues at a very important time in the world. We didn't [...]
Acting Secretary Of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan ACTING SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PATRICK SHANAHAN: Sorry -- sorry I was late. I was -- I was on the phone. It's been a -- been a 20 -- busy 24 hours, as you can imagine. And I just have to say, Secretary Pompeo and Ambassador Bolton have been [...]
Acting Secretary Shanahan and Polish Minister of National Defence Blaszczak ACTING SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PATRICK M. SHANAHAN: Mr. Minister, it's wonderful to be with you again, certainly to host you here in the Pentagon, where we'll conduct a lot of important business today. But as you and I just discussed, a lot of the important [...]
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Ellen M. Lord and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy Andrew Winternitz STAFF: OK, so good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for joining us. Today, Under Secretary of Defense Ellen Lord and Mr. Andy Winternitz, deputy assistant secretary of defense for [...]
Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan ACTING SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PATRICK SHANAHAN: All right. I've been doing some homework this morning in preparations. This is like the out-brief, OK. So you may want to have this on the record or off the record, but it's more just a little bit about the trip. So [...]
Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan Thank you, Dr. Chipman and the IISS team for organizing this conference. I especially want to thank Dr. Ng and our gracious host, Singapore. It’s good to be back: I visited Singapore many times while working in private industry, and I’m honored to join you today as Acting [...]
Acting Secretary Of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan ACTING SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PATRICK SHANAHAN: Welcome, I hope everybody is having a good trip so far. Some of you that have been on these trips -- remember last time we said, "What are some of the things we can do to make them better and improve?" I [...]
Katie Wheelbarger, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; Vice Adm. Michael Gilday, Director of the Joint Staff [Eds. note: The correct terminology for IRGC is Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps not Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE KATIE WHEELBARGER: This on? Can you hear me? I have not done [...]
Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan ACTING SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PATRICK SHANAHAN: Hi, everybody. How are you? How are you all doing? Q: So are you sending troops to Middle East? SEC. SHANAHAN: Let me -- yeah, let me talk about that. I -- I got up this morning and read that we were [...]
