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 ...

In 2022, a federal commission estimated that changing the names of nine military installations would cost taxpayers $21 million.

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

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 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.

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

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth defended the Trump administration’s purge of top military lawyers because they don’t want people in those roles who “attempt to be roadblocks to ...

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

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 ...