The ambiguity of the president’s warning could pave the way for lawsuits. It also could be damaging, critics say, if it has ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a sweeping, military-wide review of physical fitness and grooming standards with the apparent aim of making the military a stricter and less accommodating ...

In an unprecedented purge of the military’s senior leadership Friday night, President Donald Trump fired the top US general ...

In 2022, former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told "60 Minutes" that during his first term President Trump suggested firing missiles into Mexico to combat drug cartels there. Esper also said when he ...

Donald Trump’s quest for power is endangering our military.

according to then-secretary of defense Mark Esper. Thankfully, that Department of Defense shut the president down. Today he has handpicked a secretary of defense he believes will say yes ...

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Before taking office, Defense Secretaries Lloyd Austin, Mark Esper, and James Mattis had all previously sat on the boards of major defense contractors–companies that also spend hundreds of ...

Trump’s next secretary of defense, Mark Esper, infuriated Trump in 2020 by publicly opposing the invocation of the Insurrection Act, which permits the president to deploy active duty troops to ...

Subsequently, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper refused Trump's demand for active-duty military deployment, and six months later, he was dismissed via Twitter. The traces of conflict accumulated ...