President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the military’s top weapons buyer was the official who directed the Pentagon to withhold aid from Ukraine in 2019.
Washington Post staff tried to separate what is happening from what is not, and to explain what may happen in the future.
In a briefing that recalled his most extreme first term remarks, President Trump said without any evidence that diversity initiatives caused the midair collision.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to revise the Pentagon’s policy on transgender troops.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signaled Trump would sign executive orders intended to roll back diversity initiatives and shake up the military.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is removing the security detail for former top US military officer Mark Milley – a foe of President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump on Monday announced he had signed four executive orders that will reshape the military, including banning transgender service members from serving in the US armed forces; gutting the military’s diversity,
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to forge ahead with an American version of Israel's famed Iron Dome air defense system, although pressing questions remain about how the Republican and his newly installed defense officials plan to pull this off.
The Pentagon's new leader was chosen on Friday night, January 24 when the U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed former Fox News host Pete Hegseth as defense secretary for the Trump Administration. And Hegseth,