During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing last month, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth believed that a negotiated peace between Russia and Ukraine is possible because "Vladimir Putin knows ...

The court found that Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had the authority to invalidate a contract reached between the ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week, according to reports. The Morning Joe panel discusses.

Pete Hegseth thinks we're at a point where long-range drones and hypersonics are changing and contesting battle spaces differently from the assumptions we had.

Hegseth is terrible at every part of his job except the one that matters to Trump—a willingness to break with norms that keep the military in check.

New reports reveal internal strife at Hegseth’s Pentagon, including a claim that former aides were ousted over information from an illegal wiretap.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth finds himself under fire again — this time from political skeptics or foes across the political spectrum. But just as the case was during the recent ...

Hegseth reportedly fell for a “batsh*t crazy” wiretap theory allegedly “cooked up” by his own divorce lawyer that helped justify the ousting of three officials.

Hegseth ultimately said the military could "if necessary, in their own self-defense they could temporarily detain" protesters to hand over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Continue reading ...

Pete Hegseth didn’t become defense secretary because he had the resume of a great statesman.

The 44-year-old former Fox News host is "is doing a phenomenal job leading the Pentagon," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday.

Hegseth has denied the information he shared was classified, but it was given to him on a system for sensitive and classified information, sources told NBC News ...