A gaffe at the Defense Secretary’s office led to flagging an image of the B-29 bomber that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, ...

Pete Hegseth, Fox News host and military veteran, is named by Donald Trump as defense secretary. With a background in ...

Hegseth’s impact will certainly outlast his tenure. By gutting the credibility of civilian oversight, he is shattering the military’s trust that civilian leaders — of any party — can rise above and ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared early Wednesday that the US is “prepared” to go to war with China, hours after ...

A week after the Pentagon ordered employees not to respond to an email that originated from Elon Musk asking them to justify ...

Multiple U.S. officials tell CBS News that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a directive to U.S. Cyber Command last month ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the Pentagon to come up with plans to cut 8% from the defense budget in each of the next five years, according to sources familiar with his plans.

The Illinois Democrat countered Hegseth's curious refusal to name Russia as the aggressor in the Ukraine war with his own ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday addressed events in Afghanistan, saying they created the perception of "American weakness." While speaking to the Department of Defense and Pentagon ...

The family of a Vietnam War hero who lived in Alabama expressed sadness and anger that his and his wife’s names are being ...

President Trump argued on Wednesday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should “fire every single” US military general involved in the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. The ...