Dan Caldwell, a senior adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has been placed on administrative leave for an ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Sunday a sweeping new policy that will require the U.S. military to adopt equal physical and performance standards for men and women serving in combat roles ...

From the moment women entered the combat arms, the Pentagon focused on maintaining standards over anything else — and, in ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday ordered a sweeping review of military fitness standards ... That potential shift has served as something of a policy North Star for the defense secretary ...

The defense secretary’s focus on “lethality” could mean “wanton killing and wholesale destruction and disregard for law,” one ...

Military academies could increasingly show what President Trump wants to see from public schools and colleges. While K-12 ...

Wilson Beaver is a senior policy advisor in the ... This has posed a critical threat to military readiness and lethality at the Department of Defense. Changes in the name of diversity, equity ...

The Defense secretary aims to purge climate work from the Pentagon. But critics say his carve-out for weather resiliency ...

The new directive “launches one of the most ambitious efforts in decades to modernize how the department is organized and ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quipped that the Trump administration has wiped out "99.9%" of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (DEI) from the military during a Cabinet meeting on ...

“That’s Secretary Hegseth ... military since 2012, with a focus on the Air Force and Space Force. She has reported on some of the Defense Department’s most significant acquisition, budget ...

TOKYO — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called Japan ... U.S. engagement in the region may change under President Donald Trump's “America First” policy, Japanese defense officials ...