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Secretary Hegseth and General Caine Hold a Press Briefing at the Pentagon, Mar. 2, 2026

March 2, 2026 · Department of War · 0:41:53

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What happened

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine held a press briefing at the Pentagon on March 2, 2026, published live by the Department of War. It opens the pair’s March 2026 run of joint Pentagon briefings, followed by their March 4, March 10 and March 13, 2026 briefings, all paged on this site. The Secretary’s separate message to the Joint Force, published the same day, is paged separately.

Why it matters

The March 2 briefing opens the Secretary and Chairman’s March 2026 series of joint Pentagon briefings — the department’s stated account to the press in that period, recorded on the Foreign Policy & Defense hub.

Scoreboard watch

Briefings are recorded here as the department’s stated account at the time, to be checked against the subsequent record.

Sources: U.S. Department of War, “LIVE: Secretary of War and CJCS, Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, Hold a Press Briefing at the Pentagon,” March 2, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). No transcript is published with the upload; this page records the event as the department published it.