Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday said that going forward admissions to military academies will be based exclusively on merit and race, sex and ethnicity will not be considered.

Hegseth’s announcement comes two days after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration and restored the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will forgo his planned trip to Israel next week for a seat aboard Air Force One on President ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday ordered a 20% reduction in the number of military generals and flag officers, arguing that the policy will bolster “strategic readiness and operational ...

Buria, 43, is also considered “incredibly intelligent and hardworking,” has fashioned himself as a China hawk and is seen by Hegseth as an effective administrator who keeps the office running smoothly ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's plan to reduce the number of four-star generals feels a like part of President Trump's plan ...

The Pentagon under Pete Hegseth stopped arms shipments to Ukraine in February without being ordered to do so by Donald Trump.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a reduction of the US military’s highest-ranking officers — potentially setting up a ...

"It's a mess," Oleksandr Merezhko, the chair of Ukraine's parliamentary foreign affairs committee, told Newsweek.

Hegseth’s directive, characterized as an effort to rein in a bloated bureaucracy, follows a purge of top military leaders soon after Trump returned to office.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday ordered a 20% reduction in the number of four-star officers, deepening cuts at the Pentagon that have shaken the Department of Defense at the start of ...

Pete Hegseth thinks we're at a point where long-range drones and hypersonics are changing and contesting battle spaces differently from the assumptions we had.