Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 26, 2025. (Andrew Harnik / ) Pete Hegseth, the defense ...

Donald Trump’s Pentagon chief moderated his stance to get the job but is now pushing for change in the name of high standards ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday alluded to ongoing controversies that have rocked his brief tenure at the Pentagon during a speech to the Army War College. “When President Trump ...

When President Donald Trump searched for his top Cabinet secretaries, a flair for running a smooth governing machine was ...

Our soldiers responded without hesitation, killing several enemy fighters and capturing a Taliban machine gunner. At that ...

Another big challenge for Mr. Hegseth will be learning how to run the Defense Department, ... Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Chaos Builds at Pentagon Under Hegseth’s Control.

Sen. Thom Tillis, who last month said he would not seek reelection, suggested on Wednesday that he regretted casting the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday announced sweeping changes to the way the Pentagon buys and fields uncrewed air systems, or UAS, with a goal of establishing “UAS domain dominance ...

Will Hegseth’s Q&A shift the public conversation about the strikes in Iran? Probably not, but Donald Trump liked it, and it’s likely little else matters.

Hegseth has long voiced disdain for high-ranking officers, and swiftly fired Joint Chiefs Chair C.Q. Brown and the Navy’s top admiral once taking office.. The Pentagon has yet to detail specific ...

In the document, released publicly today, Hegseth said the move to restructure the Office of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, or ODOT&E, supports the Pentagon’s “America First ...