The key criteria for those in the top-tier positions appear to be loyalty, wealth, and ideological fervor, not competence.

Pete Hegseth has spent much of his first weeks in office focused on culture wars while saying little about America’s ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is bringing the name Bragg back to one of the Army’s largest bases, Fort Liberty, which ...

With President Trump at the helm and Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense, Americans now believe that military force will be exercised judiciously and righteously. Hegseth himself noted that ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday he wanted to increase overall U.S. defense spending and played down ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will on Wednesday become the first member of the new Trump administration to visit NATO, where the allies are keen to understand how America now plans to influence ...

In his first big turn on the world stage, the defense secretary has already been forced to offer a major walk-back.

Autocracies like China and Russia have at least one advantage the United States does not, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday in a Pentagon town hall: They can make plans far into the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo that he expects to uncover “hundreds of billions” in “wasteful spending” at the Defense Department. During an interview ...

He is authorizing the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness to develop guidance for current service members with gender dysphoria or a history of gender dysphoria. The under ...

Many of those fired said they already accepted a deferred resignation offer, under which they were to be paid until Sept. 30 ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told FNC's Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures" that the Pentagon will "welcome" DOGE's effort to find wasted and misused funds in the defense budget.