India, May 29 -- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth left Washington for Singapore to attend an annual Asian security summit and meet with an assortment of defense counterparts, the Pentagon announced.
"We're going out to Singapore to hold a series of meetings to ensure that region understands America will be strong," Hegseth told reporters prior to boarding his flight at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.
As part of his second official trip to the Indo-Pacific region, Hegseth is scheduled to deliver plenary remarks Saturday at the International Institute for Strategic Studies Shangri-La Dialogue.
The three-day event is described as a "premier defense summit" where regional defense ministers "debate the region's most pressing security challenges, ...