Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a sweeping, military-wide review of physical fitness and grooming standards with the apparent aim of making the military a stricter and less accommodating ...

The security detail for former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, which was provided by the Defense Department, was revoked Tuesday night, a U.S. official and a Defense Department official told CBS ...

The ambiguity of the president’s warning could pave the way for lawsuits. It also could be damaging, critics say, if it has ...

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In an unprecedented purge of the military’s senior leadership Friday night, President Donald Trump fired the top US general ...

Former CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will go from politicking on the world stage to teaching tomorrow's diplomats how to do the same. Here's everything you need to know about ...

The president's former defense secretary, Mark Esper, wrote previously that Trump would gripe about the first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, saying that the island "looks really bad." ...

CNN reported at the time that then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper told Trump that his actions could damage the integrity of the military’s justice system. Trump announced Brown’s firing on the ...

Trump has regularly focused on the look of US Navy ships, such as the first-in-class USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier.

The State Department has declared several Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations, with Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leader Elon Musk floating the idea of drone strikes ...

Instead, he tries to divide us.” Trump’s then-Defense Secretary, Mark Esper, a former officer in the US Army who had replaced Mattis, publicly said that he would not support using active-duty US ...