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 ...

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

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

The security detail for former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, which was provided by the Defense Department, was revoked Tuesday night, a U.S. official and a Defense Department official told CBS ...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, middle, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley speak to the media after briefing President Donald Trump about recent US air strikes ...

CNN reported at the time that then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper told Trump that his actions could damage the integrity of the military’s justice system. Trump announced Brown’s firing on the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also said the ... my fear is that there won't be a Secretary Esper or a General Milley who says, no, Mr. President, we can't. My fear is there will be officers ...

Esper, who served during Trump's first term in office, joins Trump's former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, his former national security adviser John Bolton and former Iran envoy Brian Hook in ...

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

The president's former defense secretary, Mark Esper, wrote previously that Trump would gripe about the first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, saying that the island "looks really bad." ...

Trump has regularly focused on the look of US Navy ships, such as the first-in-class USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier.