I am profoundly honored to begin work under President @realdonaldtrump & @secdef as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. I am also very grateful to @VP, including for swearing me in last week. 🧵1/

It was a privilege to host Indonesia’s Chargé d’Affaires, Sade Bimantara, yesterday for a wide-ranging discussion about our countries’ important strategic relationship. Indonesia is a longstanding partner and will be one of the world’s largest economies by mid-century. Under

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I was very pleased to host my Australian counterpart, Deputy Secretary Hugh Jeffrey, again at the Pentagon yesterday for a productive conversation. We are working to make progress on key initiatives that will bolster our collective defense. DoD will continue working with our

.@SecDef laid out clearly the tremendous progress the Department has made under President Trump and his leadership: Restoring deterrence, demonstrating American strength, bringing back the warrior ethos, and working with our allies in Europe and now the Indo-Pacific to raise

It will be superb to have President Trump’s wise and trusted counselor Sergio Gor as our ambassador to India. The US-India relationship is tremendously important, and it will be critical to have someone so able and insightful in this key role.

Thank you and completely agreed, @JasonMiller. We are fully committed to advancing @POTUS goal of making our alliances in Asia and beyond equitable and fit for the time.

“[Collins] said it was an ‘absolute reminder’ to Australia and New Zealand of how close China is and the rising strategic competition in the region…‘We are countries with enormous resources and actually not that much in terms of defence compared to what other nations might.

Minister Collins gets it: “Everyone's been pretty slack and the Americans have been carrying us. While we’ve been going ahead and building our welfare states and making sure we have free health care and education and everything else, their people have actually had to fund a lot.

It’s common sense that all allies, especially in Asia, need to pull their weight. That’s how we get peace through strength and sustainable collective defense. Fortunately, many of our allies, led by Europe, get it: The route to sustained peace is everybody doing their part. 1/.

The lesson here too is clear: We all must contribute and be ready to shoulder the burden of collective defense. Pacifism is not the answer. To the contrary, peace through strength is. That is the policy we are carrying to our allies in the Asia-Pacific. 4/4

We also salute America’s allies in that bitter and savage conflict, honoring their contributions to victory in the Pacific and the untold suffering so many endured in the years from 1937-1945. 3/

The lesson of the war is clear: Our military must be ready to fight and defeat aggression against our key interests, especially in Asia. And we must have the industrial base to back that up. Under President Trump and Secretary Hegseth’s leadership, that is the standard we are

Tomorrow, we will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in the Pacific. We remember in particular the extraordinary sacrifice and dedication of those millions of Americans who fought and strove to achieve victory. 1/

We and the ROK are closely aligned on the need to modernize the Alliance in response to the regional security environment. We will work closely with Seoul to ensure a strategically sustainable Alliance that is ready to defend against shared threats. (2/2)

.@SecDef and South Korean Minister of National Defense Ahn had a very productive phone call yesterday. South Korea continues to be a role model in its willingness to take more of the lead in a strong defense against the DPRK and in its spending on defense. (1/2).

I was honored to host the U.S.-Saudi Strategic Joint Planning Committee (SJPC) at the Pentagon this week alongside Saudi Assistant Minister of Defense, Dr. Khaled Biyari. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a critical, longstanding defense partner for the United States that seeks to

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I was pleased to host the President of Palau, Surangel Whipps Jr., at the Pentagon today to discuss ways to strengthen our bilateral relationship. Palau is a vital partner, and we look forward to expanding our defense relationship to realize peace through strength in the

“To make a next American century, we must rekindle that flame…The time for timidity has long since passed. Small groups of audacious men built our nation. Now, it falls to us to reindustrialize it—and in doing so, to carve out a new American century.” 8/8.

“The full promise of reindustrialization is a recovery of both the material and the spiritual ingredients for greatness. By building and asserting ourselves once more—by insisting upon ourselves, without apology or shame—we remember who we are: a nation and a people forged in the.

“We are securing from other countries the rights to the raw materials we need—rather than giving them lessons about democracy. This philosophy takes, as its first principle, that America is not an idea to be exported, but a real nation and people, united by our past and our.