A senior State Department official who was fired as a speechwriter during President Donald Trump‘s first term and has a ...

Chaos in the Pentagon over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s indecision and flip-flopping prompted President Donald Trump’s ...

We have long nurtured the illusion that, because history once bound our fates, the United States and the Philippines share a ...

The National Security Act also created the United States Air Force, also under the purview of the secretary of defense. The Department of Defense would gain its current name when the National ...

Official websites use .mil A .mil website belongs to an official U.S. Department of Defense organization in the United States ...

Senate confirms Gen. Mike Guetlein as director of the Office of Golden Dome, enhancing U.S. missile defense against advanced ...

The Senate wants to increase funding for Ukraine's military by $200 million after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth paused ...

He served as secretary of defense from 2013 to 2015. Before that, he served a dozen years in the U.S. Senate as a Republican senator from Nebraska. Secretary Hagel, great to speak with you again.

President-elect Joe Biden has named retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin as his nominee for secretary of defense, the Biden transition team announced Tuesday.. The former commander of the US Central ...