Following his confirmation, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is poised to be one of modern history’s most transformative ...

Eliot Cohen is a respected military historian. I have most of his books in my professional library and I was one of his ...

Every one of Hegseth’s predecessors emphasized unity and a diverse military as key to national progress and defense.

Although the new order will affect only a tiny fraction of America's 2.1 million service members, it has taken on oversized ...

The U.S. defense secretary faced questions about his views on female soldiers at his confirmation hearing in mid-January 2025.

OPINION: America faces unprecedented challenges threatening our position as the world’s pre-eminent military power. The Biden ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s goal to get “woke” civilian professors out of military academies and replace them with ...

That’s called “jointness,” about which Hegseth knows little. He touted his Army background in the National Guard as a ...

Hegseth has made plain that his goal is to enhance the unbridled “lethality” of American military forces without handcuffs imposed by the law of armed conflict.

Pete Hegseth, a former combat veteran and TV news ... Jim Mattis, Trump's first Defense secretary, fought in the Gulf War and later retired as a four-star general. And Trump's final acting ...

And what initiatives there are serve a clear national security purpose. Alex Wagner was assistant secretary of the Air Force ...