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Defense Secretary urges Europe to boost defense

Published 6 June 2026

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a speech at a D-Day commemoration in Normandy on Saturday to urge European nations to bolster their conventional defense capabilities and to warn of what he described as an ideological invasion arriving on European shores.

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