Senior Republicans, some of whom were given personal assurances from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the Pentagon budget ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s move to ax the size of the U.S. military’s top ranks has triggered concerns of a political ...

The extent of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ... with his management. The former Fox News host reportedly sent the messages from an unsecured line in his Pentagon office from his personal phone.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal ... May 5Citing people familiar with his management, The Wall Street Journal reported Hegseth used the app for official business more frequently ...

Hegseth said he wanted to "streamline leadership by reducing excess general and flag officer positions." ...

Hegseth’s directive, characterized as an effort to rein in a bloated bureaucracy, follows a purge of top military leaders soon after Trump returned to office.

The first step came on April 30th when Mr Hegseth issued a memo to the army. The force had two simple priorities, he wrote: ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took the first step to turn his rhetoric about bloated senior military ranks into policy on Monday with a memo ordering the services to eliminate at least 20 percent ...