Army Secretary Mark Esper may have been an unexpected choice for defense secretary, but his nomination on Friday is not surprising to those close to the White House.
President Trump announced his intention to nominate Army Secretary Mark Esper as defense secretary on Friday in a White House statement.
President Trump announced Tuesday in a tweet that Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan will no longer seek the nomination to become permanent defense secretary.
The Pentagon released new images late Monday night which officials said offered more evidence members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were responsible for last week’s attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.
The Pentagon announced Monday Shanahan has authorized sending another approximately 1,000 troops to the Middle East.
Serious questions surrounding a high-value Pentagon contract, worth $10 billion and geared to be granted to web giant Amazon, could complicate Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan’s chances of confirmation by the U.S. Senate into a permanent position atop the Department of Defense should President Donald Trump follow through with nominating him for the post.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration will sell 34 surveillance drones to four American allies in the South China Sea, Reuters reported Tuesday.
Former Obama administration officials are working to stop the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign on Iran just as it is taking hold, hoping a new president in 2020 can salvage the Iran Nuclear Deal, according to officials and experts.
Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan met with Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe on Friday at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a major Asian security summit held in Singapore.
The White House has notified Congress that plans to deploy 1,500 troops to the Middle East as tensions with Iran continue to flare, officials tell the Associated Press Friday.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday denied the veracity of an anonymously sourced report claiming administration officials are reviewing plans to send up to 120,000 troops to the Middle East amid flaring tensions with Iran.
The New York Times claimed in a report citing anonymous sources Monday, that Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan recently presented the Trump administration a military proposal that could see the Pentagon send up to 120,000 troops to the Middle East.
President Trump intends to nominate Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan to take on the role on a permanent basis, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders announced in a statement Thursday.
President Donald Trump officially nominated Patrick Shanahan as the Secretary of Defense on Thursday.
Shanahan said Friday that he expects there will be more U.S. troops to deploy to the U.S.-Mexico border, as the situation there worsens.
Pentagon leaders sought to convince senators of the need to stand up for the Space Force during a hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday.
Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan delivered a sobering statistic on Wednesday at a think-tank in Washington: Last year, China put 34 rockets into orbit — more than double the 17 that the U.S. put into orbit the same year.
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Thursday after he testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee he is not worried by a progressive watchdog group’s request that the Pentagon inspector general investigate whether he has acted unethically to help his former employer Boeing during his time at the Defense Department.
The Pentagon unveiled a $750 billion budget request for 2020, that prioritizes the threats from China and Russia.
TEL AVIV – In a first, the U.S. military deployed THAAD, its most advanced missile defense system, in Israel as part of a drill with the IDF.
Two U.S. defense officials told NBC News on Friday that Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, the two annual large-scale joint military exercises with South Korea, will no longer be held. President Donald Trump has complained about the high cost of the exercises and reportedly believes ending them will reduce tensions with North Korea.
Belgian Defense Minister Didier Reynders on Thursday denied a Washington Post report that U.S. allies have “rejected” a “Trump administration request” for them to leave troops in Syria as America withdraws its forces.
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan called Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) an “ally” after the senator told Breitbart News and the Washington Post that Shanahan was now an “adversary.”
Trump said he was “thrilled” by the idea, pointing to Space as the battleground of the future.
Sen. Jim Inhofe said Saturday he does not oppose Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan becoming the next defense secretary.
Munich (Germany) — Defence ministers from the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group meet on Friday in Munich to discuss how to reorganise in Syria after the defeat of the last pocket of jihadists and the departure of US troops.
“It’ll be a, really a gathering as opposed to a parade I guess you’d have to say,” President Trump said, calling the proposed event a “salute to America.”
The White House has not issued any orders for the United States military to reduce the presence of the 14,000 American troops in Afghanistan, U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan declared on Monday while en route to the country on an unannounced trip.
The Department of Defense is moving 250 active duty military personnel to the Texas border in response to the arrival of Central American migrants near Eagle Pass. The troops are being moved from assignments in Arizona.
The Pentagon announced Sunday in a statement it is deploying approximately 3,750 more troops to the southwest border.
The Senate on Thursday voted in favor of advancing an amendment to rebuke Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan.
Terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is on the verge of losing all of the land it once controlled in Iraq and Syria, according to Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan.
The Pentagon is preparing in case President Donald Trump orders the military to build the southern wall, according to a defense official.
President Trump called a New York Times report claiming he is considering former Democrat Virginia Sen. Jim Webb for defense secretary to replace Jim Mattis “fake news.”
Trump allies are rallying around former Virginia Senator Jim Webb to fill the position of Defense Secretary, after the abrupt departure of retired Marine General Jim Mattis.
Acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan told his team he wants them to remember “China, China, China” at his first meeting this week with top Pentagon officials.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will hand over the reins of the Pentagon to Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan as acting secretary of defense during a phone call scheduled for Monday.
President Donald Trump asked General Jim Mattis to leave his position as Secretary of Defense early, after his decision to resign.
