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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin risked national security 'unnecessarily,' Inspector General says Austin, suffering from complications after surgery for prostate cancer, had sought to keep his ...
Austin retired from the Army in 2016 only to be asked to return to the Pentagon by President Joe Biden in 2021, making history as the nation's first Black defense secretary.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks to cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. CBS News When the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, Austin was giving the orders for the lead Army ...
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine held joint news conference Sunday ...
In early April, after Pete Hegseth returned from a trip to Panama, the last person to step off the plane before the defense secretary himself was a colonel wearing slacks and a pullover. This was ...
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin arrived in Kyiv early Monday morning, as the future of US aid to Ukraine hangs in the balance of the imminent US presidential election and as Russia continues ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denied the report, saying U.S. bombs "obliterated Iran’s ability to create nuclear weapons." ...
Military personnel assigned to Los Angeles increased to about 4,100 National Guard troops and 700 Marines. Gov. Gavin Newsom said he’ll sue the administration again.
Under Secretary Austin, Buria was “cool, calm, collected, never got ruffled, and had a good attitude,” a former senior Pentagon official in the Biden administration told CNN, adding that he ...
An April 30 memorandum from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the merger of TRADOC and the Army Futures Command was part of a plan to “downsize, consolidate or close redundant headquarters.” ...
Buria sits two seats to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's right during a meeting with El Salvador Minister of National Defense René Francis Merino Monroy, April 16, 2025. (U.S. Navy Petty Officer ...