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Sept. 11, 2020

DOD Leaders Honor Those Killed in 9/11 Attacks

Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark A. Milley conducted an observance at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial in memory of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the 9/11 attacks.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper speaks to members of the press during his first joint press conference with Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Pentagon Briefing Room, on Aug. 28, 2019.

Aug. 29, 2019

Esper, Dunford Emphasize Key Role of Strategy in American Defense

The Defense Department will continue to make all decisions based on the National Defense Strategy and will follow the lines of effort — increasing lethality, encouraging alliances and partnerships, and reforming the department — that provide the strategy's foundations, Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper said.