Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News personality, was confirmed as the new Secretary of Defense after Vice President J.D. Vance cast the tie-breaking vote. Hegseth faced a sexual assault allegation and ...

Progress is slowly being made on the legal transfer of the Qatari Boeing 747-8 to the United States Department of Defense. The United States’ Secretary of Defence, Pete Hegseth and his Qatari ...

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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.

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 ...

The secretary is responsible for making sure those people are able to do their jobs – which, collectively, is to defend the United States, the American people and U.S. interests.

Hezbollah’s attacks on northern Israel and Houthi attacks on international shipping risk a much broader Middle East war, potentially involving the United States. We seem to be careening toward ...

The secretary is responsible for making sure those people are able to do their jobs – which, collectively, is to defend the United States, the American people and U.S. interests. READ MORE: What ...

He became the top commander of American forces in Iraq in 2010, when the United States still had roughly 50,000 service members there, and oversaw their withdrawal.

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 ...

Retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, the Biden administration’s choice to be secretary of defense, helps prepare care packages for American troops deployed overseas during the holidays at the D.C ...

WASHINGTON, March 27, 2011— -- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that Libya did not pose a threat to the United States before the U.S. began its military campaign against the North ...