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U.K. Secretary of State For Defense Reaffirms ‘Special Relationship,’ Says Needed Now More Than Ever

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, March 27th, 2014

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Continued support and plans to expand the special relationship between the United States and United Kingdom are the watchwords in the face of recent Russian actions in Ukraine and the heightened need for NATO solidarity and the ability to work together in the face of world-wide declining defense budgets. U.K. Secretary of State for Defense Philip Hammond visited Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel at the Pentagon March 26, who said in a briefing the two nations reaffirmed the “enduring and special…

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