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Secretary Hegseth and General Caine Hold a Press Briefing at the Pentagon, Mar. 13, 2026

March 13, 2026 · Department of War · 0:48:24

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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 13, 2026, published live by the Department of War. It precedes the pair’s March 19, 2026 Pentagon briefing, paged on this site from the department’s official upload.

Why it matters

The March 13 briefing is part of the Secretary and Chairman’s March 2026 run of joint Pentagon briefings — the department’s stated account to the press in that period, recorded on the Foreign Policy & Defense hub.

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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 13, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). No transcript is published with the upload; this page records the event as the department published it.