Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a comprehensive review of "military fitness, body composition and grooming" across all branches of the U.S. armed forces. The directive, announced on ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a “rapid” services-wide review of existing standards for military physical fitness ...

Hegseth’s directive comes after the Biden administration loosened restrictions on various grooming and hairstyle rules for military service members, as well as body fat percentage requirements for ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth responds ... as well as at Thursday’s NATO defense ministerial, one U.S. official said. Asked on Tuesday if the U.S. would send troops to Ukraine to track ...

Pete Hegseth met with troops at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay on Tuesday, February 25, as the US Secretary of Defense visited Cuba as part of Operation Southern Guard. Footage filmed by US Marine Corps ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Tuesday, his first trip to the naval installation since being confirmed to his post in January. Hegseth, who served as a U.S ...

(Reuters) -- Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, has started a working visit to Indonesia and Malaysia on Monday to discuss security and defence ...

“Nothing about this is unprecedented," Hegseth told “Fox News Sunday” about Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. being dismissed Friday night as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “The ...

On Tuesday, the Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing for Stephen Feinberg to be deputy secretary of defense, the second-highest official at the department. Feinberg is the co ...

Conservative podcaster Graham Allen started a new job at the Pentagon on Monday, as the Defense Department’s digital media director, a Defense official ... president and by Secretary Hegseth ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has supported cuts, posting on X last week that the Pentagon needs "to cut the fat (HQ) and grow the muscle (warfighters.)" He directed the Pentagon to come up with ...

Late Saturday evening, Defense ... the Secretary, and the Airmen of the USAF the very best as they serve our nation in challenging times." General James Slife is shown in this undated portrait.