In early April, after Pete Hegseth returned from a trip to Panama, the last person to step off the plane before the defense ...

President Trump came into office promising to disentangle the U.S. military from its costly forever wars in the Middle East.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is meeting with important allies during his Indo-Pacific trip, with one notable exception: South Korea, at a time of growing concerns of regional threats and ...

Still, Hegseth’s message was clear: deterrence is key in the Indo-Pacific region in the face of China’s aggression — and the ...

The United States will enhance its military alliance with the Philippines as it aims to “reestablish deterrence” to counter “China’s aggression” in the Indo-Pacific region, US Defense Secretary Pete ...

Beijing seeks to assert its claim over the bulk of the South China Sea ... stationed in sprawling bases in Japan and Korea. Speaking alongside Hegseth, Teodoro, the Philippine defense secretary ...

By Sui-Lee Wee Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth used his first trip to ... It will be Australia and South Korea and other nations in this part of the world,” he said, where, together ...

South Korea and the Philippines. Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba sits with Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth as they pose for a commemorative photograph during a joint US-Japan memorial ...