Pete Hegseth

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday addressed a report by The Atlantic that claimed he had shared sensitive details about U.S. military strikes in Yemen on an encrypted messaging app to a group chat with other cabinet members where a reporter was accidentally added.

The Department of Defense over the weekend announced an investigation into leaks of sensitive and classified information following a series of unauthorized disclosures to several legacy news media outlets.

The U.S. Air Force will produce the world’s first sixth-generation fighter jet, named the F-47, President Donald Trump announced Friday.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) canceled 105 more contracts, with a ceiling value of $935 million, it announced this week.

Stephen A. Smith has challenged President Trump, Vice President Vance, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to a debate over DEI policies after an article about color-barrier-breaking MLB legend Jackie Robinson was removed from a Defense Department website.

U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes, a Biden-appointee and the first openly lesbian federal judge in D.C., blocked the Trump administration’s transgender troops ban on Tuesday night.

A Biden-appointed federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump Pentagon from implementing its policy that would bar transgender troops.

Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell on Monday said the Department of Defense has an obligation to hold military leadership accountable for the botched Afghanistan withdrawal under the Biden administration that saw the death of 13 U.S. service members and dozens more wounded.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asked defense officials to “provide credible military options to ensure fair and unfettered US military and commercial access to the Panama Canal,” according to reports.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday ordered a department-wide review of existing standards for each military branch on physical fitness, body composition, and grooming — including on beards, Breitbart News has exclusively learned.

Military officials testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the current readiness of America’s joint force on Wednesday, March 12.

The Associated Press (AP) took aim at the U.S. Defense Department on Thursday as it works to remove diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) from the military.

UK backs U.S. push for Europe to do more on defence, its government ministers have said as the defence secretaries of both nations met. 

Tim Parlatore, Navy veteran and personal lawyer for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, told Breitbart News on Wednesday that on Friday he will be commissioned into the United States Navy to serve the country in uniform once again.

China accused Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth of “fueling an ideological confrontation” by keeping pace with China’s military spending.

The UK signals intention to not follow U.S. in suspension of aid to Kyiv hours before key meeting with Pete Hegseth.

A border wall upgrade construction project canceled by President Joe Biden is back underway in the Texas Rio Grande Valley.

“Tooth and tail.” That’s the phrase new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth uses to describe how money is spent (and wasted) by the Pentagon. It captures the difference between spending money to support warfighters and spending it on the mushrooming support operations that are supposed to keep the troops ready.

British defence minister will travel to Washington this week for talks with Pete Hegseth to advance work on peace in Ukraine.

President Donald Trump touted getting wokeness out of the United States military, as well as record recruitment numbers during his speech to a joint session of Congress.

Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell announced Monday evening that the DOGE team at the department has identified about $80 million in spending on diversity, equity, and inclusion that will likely be cut.

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s attempt to attack Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth failed when he noted that the New York Democrat once tried, and failed, to “reset” relations with Russia.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the deployment of an active-duty Stryker Brigade Combat Team and an aviation battalion to reinforce security at the United States southern border, Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced over the weekend.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a video statement released Sunday, directed Department of Defense civilian employees to respond to an email from the Office of Personnel Management asking them to list five accomplishments from the prior week.

Under orders from the Trump administration, the Pentagon is deploying 3,000 more troops and armored Stryker vehicles to the U.S. border with Mexico.  The orders expand current operations and to “seal the border and protect the territorial integrity of the United States,” officials said.

A group of five partisan former defense secretaries — including one who signed the discredited letter calling the Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation — are calling on Congress to hold hearings on President Donald Trump’s firing of top generals.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is not ruling out military strikes on fentanyl labs in Mexico, he said in a recent interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday visited Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to speak with American troops and tour the facilities holding illegal aliens before deportation.

During this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Fox News Sunday,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insisted that President Donald Trump’s orders were lawful and would be followed.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired two four-star military leaders on Friday evening, making good on a promise to review general officers and replace any who were not aligned with his and President Donald Trump’s efforts to prioritize lethality and war-fighting in the military.

The Pentagon is preparing to fire more than 5,000 probationary workers from the Department of Defense’s (DoD) civilian department, according to several reports.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker raised eyebrows after he harshly criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s remarks on Ukraine last week, but a spokesman for the senator said they have spoken since and remain aligned.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has claimed that the “outgoing Biden IRS” targeted his family with a “rushed” tax audit.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that he has already picked investigators who will look into the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.

Elbridge Colby, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, is the latest target of globalist critics after Trump’s other unconventional nominees like Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Bobby Kennedy Jr. and Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard were confirmed last week.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News he will “continually review” how to bring back troops who were kicked out or left due to the Biden administration’s COVID vaccine mandate.