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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan sits in between two people.

NATO Ministers

From left, British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan and North Macedonian Defense Minister Radmila Sekerinska sit for a meeting during a two-day NATO defense ministerial in Brussels, Feb. 13, 2019.

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