White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt offered a very simple explanation for Friday's change in Pentagon personnel.

Jim Mattis and four other former defense secretaries called Trump’s ouster of Gen. C.Q. Brown and other top military officers ...

Pete Hegseth, secretary of defense and a 2025 Wash100 Award winner, has announced the intention of President Donald Trump to ...

Democratic lawmakers and retired military officers expressed concern about the politicization of the military under President ...

President Donald Trump's choice last week to nominate Lt. Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine as his pick to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff marks uncharted territory for the military.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in an interview on Sunday that Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. was “not the right man for the ...

Air Force Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was fired Friday night by President Donald Trump, ...

Joint Chiefs of Staff members advise the president, the secretary of defense ... Mexico on Thursday sent the United States 29 people accused by American authorities of being drug cartel members ...

Five former US defense secretaries on Thursday addressed a letter to lawmakers denouncing as "reckless" the recent firings of ...

David Smith has been appointed as the acting director of the Defense Health Agency, replacing Army Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland.

Before becoming defense secretary, Hegseth had accused Brown, the first Black officer to lead the Air Force and only the second to become Joint Chiefs ... that “the United States cannot afford ...