Daily on Defense

Long Pentagon briefing drought about to end

By Jamie McIntyre
Published August 28, 2019 11:04am ET
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Long Pentagon briefing drought about to end
RED-LETTER DAY: The last time a U.S. defense secretary took the podium in the Pentagon briefing room alongside the joint chiefs chairman to face the cameras and take reporters’ questions was exactly one year ago today: Aug. 28, 2018. That was one of the rare times that notoriously camera-shy Jim Mattis agreed to conduct a […]

RED-LETTER DAY: The last time a U.S. defense secretary took the podium in the Pentagon briefing room alongside the joint chiefs chairman to face the cameras and take reporters’ questions was exactly one year ago today: Aug. 28, 2018.

That was one of the rare times that notoriously camera-shy Jim Mattis agreed to conduct a formal briefing in the Pentagon’s commodious but lightly used briefing facility.

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