With the recruiting rate for the all-volunteer force declining, defense leaders are asking how the military can connect with and motivate the new generation to serve.
Senior officials from the U.S. government and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq conducted the inaugural Peshmerga Executive Steering Committee at the Kurdistan Region Presidency in Erbil, Iraq.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Daniel Erikson, hosted the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Keith Rowley at the Pentagon.
Three U.S. soldiers were killed in Jordan, while more than 40 other service members were injured following an uncrewed aerial system attack at a military base near the Syrian border.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg discussed strengthening NATO's credible deterrence and defense capabilities at the Pentagon.
