U.S. military

Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth’s Senate confirmation hearing is scheduled for the second week of January, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee told CNN.

ProPublica, a nonprofit news outlet that boasts digging deep into “important issues,” nearly published a false news story about Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth but was deterred after Hegseth sent them his letter of admission.

Just one week ago, Trump Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s confirmation appeared doomed after a barrage of hit pieces. However, after launching an intense campaign to defend himself, he now appears to be on a path towards confirmation.

Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth said in an interview Monday that President-elect Donald Trump’s top priority for the Pentagon is to return the military to warfighters.

Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth on Monday evening spoke positively about his second meeting with Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) earlier in the day, as he works to win over support from her and other senators who are responsible for confirming him for the position.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tiptoed closer to supporting Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth after a meeting together on Monday.

More than 100 Navy SEAL veterans are set to march in Washington, DC, in support of Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s confirmation, friend and show host Alec Lace told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview.

Vice President-Elect JD Vance on Friday reiterated his and President-Elect Donald Trump’s support for Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth, who has been besieged by a relentless smear campaign.

Incoming National Security Adviser Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) said Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump is “absolutely” standing by Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth.

President-elect Donald Trump reaffirmed support for Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth on Thursday, posting from his account on Truth Social an article slamming the barrage of Democrat attacks on him.

Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth on Thursday said before his meetings on Capitol Hill with senators he spoke to President-elect Donald Trump who reiterated his support for him.

Trump Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth is shoring up support from Republican senators amid a concerted smear campaign against him based on years-old allegations from anonymous sources funneled through establishment media outlets.

Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth said Wednesday — amid rumors that President-elect Donald Trump would replace him with Gov. Ron DeSantis — that he spoke directly to Trump and has his support.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) expressed full support for Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth after meeting with him Monday amid an onslaught of hit pieces from the establishment media.

British media personality Piers Morgan slammed the “relentless onslaught” against Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth as “pathetic.”

A group of Republican senators who will be responsible for confirming Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth expressed confidence in him after meeting with him on Monday.

Trump Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth’s mother apologized to her son immediately after sending him an emotional email in 2018 accusing him of mistreating his ex-wife in the midst of their difficult divorce, according to an email viewed Saturday by Breitbart News.

New York Times reporter Sharon LaFraniere on Friday published a hit piece on President-Elect Donald Trump’s Pentagon Chief nominee Pete Hegseth based on an emotional private email his mother sent him that she told him afterwards she did not mean and regretted sending.

A community of military veterans who fought against initiatives from the Biden administration they deemed unconstitutional have put together a list of 18 names they would like to see appointed to positions in the incoming Trump administration to help President-elect Donald Trump implement reform in the Pentagon or other agencies.

The remnants of an abandoned U.S. military base in Greenland known as the “city under the ice” have been unexpectedly rediscovered.

The Trump transition team shot down a report from a British newspaper claiming that President-elect Donald Trump is planning an executive order that would remove all transgender troops from the military and prevent transgender people from joining the military.

A police report from 2017 released this week via a freedom of information request casts major doubt on a sexual assault allegation made against President-Elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth.

Republican senators expressed confidence in Pete Hegseth as the incoming Trump administration’s defense secretary after meeting with him on Thursday.

Two far-left, pro-Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) veterans are behind allegations that Trump defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s tattoos are tied to white supremacy, according to public reports and information.

The Pentagon failed its seventh audit in a row, failing to account for its more than $824 billion budget in 2024, the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General announced on Friday.

President-elect Donald J. Trump is sending a clear message that military troops will be part of his border security plan and play a role in mass deportation operations promised during his campaign. On Monday, Trump confirmed this on his Truth Social platform by re-truthing a post by Tom Fitton, president of the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, indicating Trump would use the military to “reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program.” Trump responded on Truth Social with a one-word answer — “TRUE!!!”

Senator-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that President-elect Donald Trump wanted to use the U.S. military against him.

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is putting together a list of United States military officers who were involved in the Biden Administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to a recent report.

The Pentagon is in “absolute disarray” with “generals scrambling” over the incoming Trump administration’s plans to fire woke senior military leaders who prioritized diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) over combat readiness, according to sources.

A recent poll by the left-leaning veterans organization Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) found that when respondents were asked to choose between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump edged out Harris 51 percent to 49 percent.

Mayra Guillén, the younger sister of slain Hispanic U.S. Army soldier Vanessa Guillén, on Wednesday blasted The Atlantic for its anonymously-sourced hit piece on the eve of the presidential election claiming that former President Donald Trump disrespected her sister, calling it “a lie from the very beginning.”

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is introducing a bill on Thursday that would hold defense contractors and the Department of Defense accountable for the myriad failures of the F-35 strike fighter jet — the most expensive weapons program in history that has been plagued with problems and cost overruns since its inception, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

Iranian Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh on Wednesday dismissed the advanced missile defense system the United States is deploying in Israel as “psychological warfare” that would do little to enhance Israel’s defense against Iranian missiles.

The North Korean military announced on Wednesday that it will sever all road and rail links to South Korea and construct more fortifications on the border, deepening the chasm between the two peninsular governments.

In his first act after retirement from the Navy, whistleblower Ted Macie endorsed former President Donald Trump, donning a red Make America Great Again hat at his retirement ceremony on Friday on the USS Constitution in Boston.

Anti-Woke Caucus Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) rebuked the Biden-Harris administration’s Navy Secretary Carlos del Toro for violating the Hatch Act and lowering standards for recruits, in a letter first obtained by Breitbart News.