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 ...

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 division.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other military officials held a Thursday morning news conference to respond to an early leaked intelligence report suggesting U.S. strikes against Iran likely ...

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 ...

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 ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denied the report, saying U.S. bombs "obliterated Iran’s ability to create nuclear weapons." ...

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 to ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine held joint news conference Sunday ...

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.” ...

Last month, after news broke that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was using Signal to discuss sensitive military operations in violation of Pentagon policy, one of his closest military aides ...

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 ...