What does the secretary of defense do? They’re responsible for about 3.4 million people, including 1.2 million active duty service members and 1.3 million reservists, as well as about 900,000 ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth may have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan — but now he’s facing another battle: this time on his home turf at the Pentagon. Controversy has plagued Hegseth ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered a review of combat fitness standards to ensure gender neutrality on Sunday, even though fitness tests for combat roles are already gender neutral.

The Senate voted Friday to confirm Stephen Feinberg, a billionaire investor, as the next deputy secretary of defense. Here, Feinberg appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee for his Feb ...

(THE CONVERSATION) After weeks of controversy amid accusations of sharing sensitive information about military operations in unsecured chats with unauthorized recipients, Defense Secretary Pete ...