Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that “domestic violence extremism is the greatest terrorist-related threat we face on the homeland.”
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin landed in the Philippines during his weeklong trip to East Asia on Thursday, wearing a face shield as he exited the plane and greeted Filipino officials.
Milley dodged reporters’ questions on whether he actually feared then-President Donald Trump wanted to stage a coup.
The Capitol Police is poised to begin using the same military surveillance systems that troops used against terrorists overseas.
First Lady Jill Biden will join Sesame Street and the United Services Automobile Association (USAA) to lecture U.S. military families about race — despite the fact that the U.S. military is more diverse than the rest of the federal government and the American population in general.
(AFP) — The U.S. and French defence chiefs signed a new “roadmap” for cooperation between their special operations forces Friday as both seek to build international efforts to counter non-state threats like Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) reacted to an op-ed by Air Force Academy Political Science Professor Lynne Chandler García arguing in favor of teaching critical race theory and saying that she teaches CRT
An adviser to the Pentagon’s Counter-Extremism Working Group (CEWG) is warning the Biden administration’s efforts to purge the military of “extremists” could violate individual First Amendment rights.
Waltz pushed back against the idea that learning critical race theory is akin to learning “history” and that opposing it makes one racist.
During an interview with Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) on Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” co-host Brianna Keilar said that Republicans wanted Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin “who is the first black Defense Secretary to be the face of the
Biden Pentagon leaders lashed out at Republican lawmakers who grilled them on the teaching of critical race theory in the military.
The Pentagon does not yet have a definition of what “extremism” is but is working “quite hard” to define it, according to officials.
Austin said although he did not think the military is “fundamentally racist,” there is a focus on “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
The Biden administration’s $715B defense budget for 2022 proposes spending about $30M on top of spending $9.1M in 2021 to combat “extremism.”
The Pentagon on Tuesday defended the department’s diversity and inclusion efforts rolled out during the Biden administration, characterizing it as a matter of defending the nation.
The Chinese military has been ignoring requests from the Pentagon for its top leaders to speak for the first time since taking office.
Thirty House Republicans sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday, warning him that creeping left-wing extremism and politicization is jeopardizing the United States military’s status as one of the nation’s most respected institutions.
Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) personnel are being encouraged to attend a conference on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) said he is greatly concerned by numerous press reports of conservatives being silenced in the military.
The first active duty service member has been charged in connection to the January 6 Capitol breach on Thursday, out of the more than one thousand people estimated to have entered the Capitol building that day.
Parlatore responded to Austin’s comment that the Navy was “looking into” Gallagher saying his team meant to kill a ISIS fighter.
The nation’s top military officer touted “diversity” as one of the United States military’s “key strengths” on Wednesday.
Sen. Dan Sullivan blasted a Democrat colleague for suggesting as much as ten percent of the military could be white supremacists or adhere to “extremist ideology.”
The Pentagon is looking into better screening recruits’ and service members’ social media as part of its effort to get rid of “extremism” in the United States military, according to a recent memo from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Israel may have saved the Biden administration from a humiliating capitulation to Iran with an attack that disabled Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility this weekend.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday told visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that Israel and the U.S. agree on never allowing Iran to obtain nuclear weapons.
The power cut on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility Sunday, which Iran blamed Israel for and said was an act of “nuclear terrorism,” will set back Tehran’s nuclear program by nine months, according to U.S. intelligence sources.
Iran blamed Israel on Monday for a sabotage attack on its underground Natanz nuclear facility, vowing for the second time in a matter of months bloody revenge against those it holds responsible for an “act of terror.”
Israel’s Mossad spy agency was responsible for the power cut on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, which came hours after the site began enriching uranium at high speeds, Israeli media said Sunday citing Western intelligence sources.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Israel on Sunday–marking the first official visit from a Biden administration official–and met with his Israeli counterpart, Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
“This is the first in American history that the Cabinet looks like America,” Biden said as his cabinet gathered in the East Room of the White House.
The State Department intends to spend $2.5 million to establish the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
The new diversity and inclusion chief for the U.S. military’s Special Operations Command, Richard Torres-Estrada, has been reassigned amid an investigation into politically-charged social media posts he made before he was hired, a spokesman told Breitbart News on Monday.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) ripped a House Armed Services Committee hearing on “extremism in the military” as “total nonsense.”
Navy slides used to train its personnel on “extremism” encouraged sailors and Navy civilians to report on their colleagues if they saw indicators of “suspected or actual extremist behaviors.”
The legitimate government of Afghanistan is considering a power-sharing agreement with the Taliban, but not unless the Taliban acknowledges its legitimacy, a senior official said this weekend.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken cautioned China Tuesday against using “coercion and aggression” to get what it wants in Asia.
McCarthy called for the politicization of the military to “stop now,” after a series of political controversies.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Sunday demanded a meeting with the Commandant for the United States Marine Corps (USMC) over the political attacks on Fox News Host Tucker Carlson.
A Marine Corps Twitter account over the weekend lashed out at a civilian that suggested the service focus on China and not Tucker Carlson.
