Nicole Herling was praying for brain disease. That's rarely happy news. But for her, it offered a potential answer to a haunting question: why, in less than a year, had her brother transformed from a ...

President Trump has signed an executive order directing the Pentagon to end all programs that encourage diversity, equity and inclusion, known as DEI. The order says the initiatives undermine military ...

The Pentagon’s new strategy focused on countering drones aims to respond to the future of warfare as autonomous unmanned ...

During his time Austin oversaw the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, led the more than 50-nation coalition supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia, and directed the most intense naval combat ...

In a statement accompanying his report on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization, Pentagon Inspector General Robert ...

(Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) HAIYUN JIANG NYT Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth wants to honor one of the country’s most incompetent military leaders by putting the ...

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Pete Hegseth has made it through his confirmation hearing and now appears to be on a glide path for confirmation as secretary of defense. The hearing, which lasted four hours, subjected Hegseth to ...

A watchdog investigation into outgoing Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization in 2024 found that his secretive hospital stay resulted in heightened national security risk, in part because ...

But Austin “did not transfer his authorities” during that period, the review found, nor did he inform Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks or his chief of staff of the procedures.

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