A recent tweet from Secretary of Defense “War” Pete Hegseth has prompted widespread mockery online. “OPERATION ROUGH RIDER = Freedom of Navigation for U.S. ships,” he began. “OPERATION MIDNIGHT HAMMER ...

War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the commencement of Operation Southern Spear on Thursday evening, an operation he said is aimed at protecting the Western Hemisphere from “narcoterrorists.” Trump ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. struck two alleged drug boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Sunday, killing six people, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday morning. No U.S. forces were harmed in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday the Pentagon is revamping how the military buys weapons, shifting the focus away from producing advanced and complex technology and toward ...

Hegseth gave his address, which ran for more than an hour, at the National War College. It delved much more into military minutia than a previous big speech to hundreds of military leaders abruptly ...

Speaking at the National War College in Washington, Hegseth announced the creation of a specialized “deal team” within the new Wartime Production Unit. According to a tweet from the Department of War, ...

Pentagon leaders are putting their weapons suppliers in the crosshairs. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that the U.S. military will shake up the way it buys weaponry, equipment and software ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday unveiled a sweeping overhaul to how the Pentagon buys weapons, a restructuring aimed at having the U.S. military more quickly ...

As President Donald Trump intensifies his administration’s war on drugs through direct military action at sea, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced yet another deadly strike on Thursday. In a ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth outlined plans Friday for a sweeping revamp of the military's acquisition systems, which he described as sluggish and mired in bureaucracy. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP) ...

In a speech outlining his overhaul plans, the defense secretary called on American weapons makers to surge “at the speed of ingenuity.” By Greg Jaffe Reporting from Washington Nearly every new defense ...