The Minister of Defense, Jorge Taiana, stressed this Thursday that the portfolio he leads has the objective of "recovering all the capabilities that an armed force must have", with a "defensive strategy" but also a "deterrent power and national deployment" . In dialogue with Télam, Taiana analyzed the state of the Armed Forces and indicated that "there is a lot of material to renew and a lot of personnel, because there is a lot of deployment to do." The official highlighted the role of the National Defense Fund (FONDEF) and stated that "it will allow us to recover what is broken, repair it, modernize what is old and buy what is necessary to buy because we don't have it." Taiana expressed himself in these terms when supervising the Punta de Flecha (Section II) military exercise, in Córdoba, during a tour of the Joint Operations Area and the Embalse Nuclear Power Plant, as part of the verification cycle of the State Campaign Plans Major Joint. The exercises were carried out to "respond effectively and quickly in the defense of strategic areas", in a "new activity in the doctrinal way that is approached to have quick responses, for interoperability and to be able to respond, and we are talking here about defense of our strategic areas," the official highlighted. Taiana highlighted the acquisition of weapons and aircraft for the Armed Forces, although he stressed that "any recovery of ammunition is a long process." "The truth is that we have a munitions plan for more than 10 years, which is being fulfilled and with that we have the objective of recovering all the capabilities that an Armed Force must have, which has a defensive strategy, but which must have deterrent power and national deployment". He also commented on the installation of future military bases and highlighted that a detachment is advancing in Tolhuin, Tierra del Fuego, where "there was no presence of the Army", and that they are also seeking to "reestablish a base in Catamarca