Senior Defense Officials Hold a Background Briefing

GEN. RYDER: Great. Well, good morning, and thank you very much for joining us today. Again, I'm Major General Pat Ryder, Pentagon press secretary. I'll be facilitating today's background call. First up, as a reminder, today's call is embargoed until Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Jake Sullivan goes to the podium for his press briefing later this afternoon, where he'll announce a new PDA package. As I'm sure you can appreciate, we do not want to get ahead of the White House announcement, but we did want to make our briefers available to you in advance to help provide additional context regarding this announcement and to answer any questions you might have to inform y...