Official websites use .gov
Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
Strong alliances and multinational partnerships provide avenues for peace and temper the plans of our adversaries.
We're also taking the fight to ISIS outside of Iraq and Syria, attacking … their affiliates and any groups that claim allegiance. ISIS is a transregional threat, and we have a global approach.
Marines fire a nonexplosive illumination round from an 81 mm mortar to deter enemy activity at Camp Shorserack, Afghanistan, July 15, 2017. The Marines are assigned to Task Force Southwest, which helped Afghan forces clear insurgents from the Nawa district center. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Lucas Hopkins
Photo Details
Long-term regional security and prosperity are at risk. We need only look at the chaos and violence that our friends in the Middle East are contending with to see why we must act swiftly and jointly to address threats to our region.
Three F/A-18E Super Hornets assigned to Strike Fighter Attack Squadron 115 fly in formation over the aircraft carriers USS Ronald Reagan, USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Nimitz and their strike groups, along with ships from the South Korean navy, as they transit the Western Pacific, Nov. 12, 2017. The strike groups operated in international waters as part of a three-carrier strike force exercise. Navy photo by Lt. Aaron B. Hicks
NATO is charged to be ready to respond to the new and continually evolving security environment. We must continue to set conditions and invest now to ensure European security in the future.
Army Staff Sgt. Uriah Gibson, center left, and a Canadian Army engineer show Ukrainian combat training center engineers how to clear a room after using explosives to breach a door during training near Yavoriv, Ukraine, Feb. 23, 2017. Army photo by Sgt. Anthony Jones
Those same capabilities that make our armed forces so effective in combat make our forces uniquely effective in disaster relief efforts.
Navy Petty Officers 2nd Class Jansen Schamp and Rion Johnson assist with a medical evacuation in Jasper, Texas, Aug. 31, 2017, during relief efforts following Hurricane Harvey. Both sailors are naval aircrewmen. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Christopher Lindahl
To all the veterans … you set an uncompromising bar that every one of us on duty today must live up to.
Almost 200 U.S. soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen march from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde in Paris, July 12, 2017, during a rehearsal for the Bastille Day military parade. The U.S. led the parade to commemorate the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I and the longstanding partnership between the U.S. and France. Navy photo by Chief Petty Officer Michael McNabb