The U.S. will use “every tool” at its disposal to repatriate the two American citizens captured by Venezuelan narco-dictator Nicolás Maduro for allegedly participating in a failed attempt to overthrow the socialist leader, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared on Wednesday.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Tuesday slammed Senate Democrats who penned a public letter on April 27 accusing the Pentagon of slow and disjointed efforts to protect the military from coronavirus.
Pentagon calls on China to allow the international community access to early coronavirus patients, researchers, and scientists.
The Pentagon has stayed silent on why it gave a multimillion-dollar contract to a firm that sent U.S. taxpayer money to a lab in Wuhan.
Russia and China see the coronavirus emergency engulfing Europe as a crisis they can exploit, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday, specifically pointing to Chinese efforts to push Huawei 5G network equipment as malign.
Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) is investigating a multimillion-dollar Pentagon biological warfare research grant that went to a New York firm that sent taxpayer money to a lab in Wuhan, China, from which U.S. intelligence officials believe the COVID-19 coronavirus, which is plaguing the world, may have leaked.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper is deciding whether to take the Navy’s recommendation to reinstate Navy Capt. Brett Crozier as the commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt — the aircraft carrier that was sidelined in Guam with a coronavirus outbreak — after the service concluded its investigation into his actions on Friday.
The Pentagon said an ABC News report that said a military intelligence unit wrote a report on the coronavirus in November is not accurate.
Trump said he would get involved with the Navy’s firing of Capt. Brett Crozier, the former commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
The U.S. military has begun operations to stop the illicit flow of narcotics across the country’s southern border at President Donald Trump’s direction, Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced Wednesday at a White House briefing.
The Pentagon on Monday announced the first service member to succumb to coronavirus — a member of the New Jersey Army National Guard.
President Donald Trump has authorized Defense Secretary Mark Esper to order units and individual members in the National Guard and Reserves, as well as “certain Individual Ready Reserve members,” to active duty to augment forces in the coronavirus response, according to the chief Pentagon spokesperson.
The Army is deploying field hospitals and medical units to New York and Washington state to help with coronavirus response efforts.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper stated that if China’s government was more transparent, coronavirus would have been contained in China and wouldn’t have spread around the world. Esper said, “You
The Pentagon will provide up to five million N-95 respirator masks and 2,000 specialized ventilators from its strategic reserves.
The United States military conducted “defensive” airstrikes against five Kata’ib Hizbollah (KH) weapons storage facilities across Iraq, significantly degrading the Iran-backed Shia militia’s ability to conduct future attacks against coalition forces, the Pentagon said Thursday.
Esper announced travel restrictions for troops, civilians, and families traveling to and from Level 3 countries due to the coronavirus epidemic.
Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division who deployed to the Middle East in January amid a crisis with Iran arrived home on Thursday.
The Pentagon’s top policy official, John Rood, is leaving his position at the end of the month, the department announced on Wednesday.
China steals Western capabilities, intimidates smaller nation states and seeks “advantage by any means and at any cost,” U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper cautioned on Saturday as he cast the world’s most populous nation as a disruptive threat to world order.
Esper sent a memo to the Pentagon urging them to remain “apolitical” and avoid any actions that could imply political endorsement.
On Sunday’s broadcast of CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says he “didn’t see” any evidence of President Donald Trump’s claim that Iran was planning an “imminent” attack on four U.S. embassies.
University of Michigan professor Juan Cole referred to President Donald Trump as “a mad bomber in the White House” on Wednesday at an anti-war protest on campus. The professor added that President Trump, along with Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is “making war” on the “climate.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif called its ballistic missile attacks on Iraqi bases where U.S. troops are based “proportionate measures in self-defense,” suggesting it was revenge for the U.S.’s killing of Iranian terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani.
“All is well!” Trump wrote, noting that the United States was still assessing casualties and damages at the two military bases attacked in Iraq. “So far, so good!”
On Tuesday at a press conference, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo objected to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell’s question about President Donald Trump’s threat to attack Iranian cultural sites.
Iran’s rubber-stamp parliament voted to expand an April 2019 bill declaring U.S. Central Command a terrorist organization to all of the Pentagon following the elimination of Iranian terror chief Qasem Soleimani.
Pentagon leaders defended the U.S. military strike against Soleimani, saying intelligence showed he was planning “imminent” combat operations.
Department of Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced Tuesday evening that he has approved the deployment of 750 U.S. soldiers to the Middle East following an attack by pro-Iran forces on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.
U.S. warplanes struck targets in Iraq and Syria over the weekend, killing at least 25 members of an Iran-backed Shiite militia group called Kataib Hezbollah that was held responsible for a rocket attack on Friday that killed an American civilian contractor.
An American service member was killed in action in Afghanistan on Sunday, just two days before Christmas, the Pentagon announced.
Pentagon leaders pushed back against the idea that the department’s leaders have not been transparent on progress in the Afghanistan War.
The president described the battle as “one of the most consequential and tenacious operations in modern military history”
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Saturday that the Trump administration has been “very aggressive” with Russia, contrary to critics’ assertion.
On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper defended the Trump administration’s decision not to fully cooperate with Congress on its impeachment push. Esper told host Chris Wallace he saw Congress as having oversight authority, but it
Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher thanked President Donald Trump for intervening in his case on Sunday and prohibiting the Navy from pulling his Trident pin.
Gallagher’s long fight with the Navy is finally over, with the firing of Navy Secretary Richard Spencer and an order from Trump.
During an interview with CBS aired on Monday, former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer stated President Trump’s intervention in the review of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher’s Trident sends the message “That you can get away with things.” Spencer said, “Right now,
Esper said Monday he fired Spencer because Spencer had gone behind his back on handling the case of Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher.
Esper has asked Spencer to resign over the taking away of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher’s Navy SEAL Trident pin.