Tag: Department of Defense
No doubt the Beltway press would love to knock Pete Hegseth out as Defense secretary, but that doesn’t come close to explaining the mess at the Pentagon. The staff infighting, dismissals, and leaks over Signal…
It’s been more slash and burn this week. When President Donald Trump took office 2.3 million federal employees kept the wheels turning, about the same as the late 1960s, even though the country’s population has…
Americans didn’t learn much about Pentagon nominee Pete Hegseth at his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday, but they did learn more about the world’s greatest nondeliberative body. Democrats mostly played into Mr. Hegseth’s hands with…
For millenia, war has been a largely male undertaking. Women may have sparked conflict — think of Helen of Troy — or in countless numbers been its victims. They have also conducted daring missions behind…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pete Hegseth, a popular Fox News host who is Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Defense, was accused of sexual assault in 2017 after a speaking appearance at a Republican…
The Department of Defense has been watching, and recording, the skies. The Pentagon released three videos Monday that depict unexplained “unidentified aerial phenomena” which were recorded by pilots between 2004 and 2015. In each of…
WASHINGTON (AP) The sooner-than-expected departure of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis shifts the focus to President Donald Trumps appointment of an acting Pentagon chief and plans for a permanent replacement. It also signals an acrimonious…
