Joe Kasper, Hegseth's former chief of staff, is the latest Department of Defense official rumored to be leaving.

Between the personnel crises and security lapses, the defense secretary’s tenure has gone from bad to worse — to humiliating.

Pete Hegseth has surrounded himself with people who ‘don’t have his interests at heart’ as Pentagon infighting escalates - ‘A lot of people [are] trying to assert dominance in an area where it’s very