"It's the beginning of a very, very serious degradation of the military and politicization of the military," he said.

The defense secretary has repeatedly derided the military lawyers for war crime prosecutions and battlefield rules of ...

Sen. Jack Reed, ranking Democrat on Armed Services Committee, said Trump’s purge of senior Pentagon leaders is a threat to ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was asked by Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream about the recent firing of top lawyers for the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in an interview on Sunday that Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. was “not the right man for the ...

Donald Trump's first “Friday Night Massacre” targeted inspectors general and his second targeted judge advocates general. The ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blamed Democrats for “mischaracterizing” the firing spree carried out by President Donald ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood by President Trump's decision to remove Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the chairman of the ...

Hegseth said “there are lots of presidents who made changes” citing former commanders in chief, including Franklin D.

Jack Reed, the ranking Democrat on the Armed ... And, apparently, what Trump and [Defense Secretary Pete] Hegseth are trying to do is to politicize the Department of Defense, and it's not ...