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Secretary Hegseth and General Caine Meet with the Baltic Defense Ministers at the Pentagon, Jul. 25, 2025

July 25, 2025 · Department of War · 0:42:35

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What happened

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine met at the Pentagon on July 25, 2025, with Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur, Latvian Defense Minister Andris Spruds and Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene, according to the Department of War’s description of the live session (uploaded July 26, 2025). The ministers’ names are as the department published them.

Why it matters

A joint Secretary–Chairman meeting with all three Baltic defense ministers is the alliance’s eastern-flank consultation on the record — the Pentagon’s stated engagement with the front-line NATO allies.

Sources: U.S. Department of War, “LIVE: SECDEF Hegseth and CJCS Gen. Caine Meet with Leaders from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania,” uploaded July 26, 2025 (official upload, embedded above; the department’s description dates the meeting July 25, 2025). No transcript is published with the upload; this page records the event as the department published it.