In 2016, as then-presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed that US troops would carry out even his most extreme battlefield orders as commander in chief — some of which former military leaders said ...

Lawmakers have taken a hard line against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, threatening to lock down a portion of his travel budget until he turns over unedited footage of U.S. military strikes against ...

There’s a crude idiom in the military about what happens when a mistake occurs. To paraphrase, the blame flows downhill — or in this case, down the chain of command. But in the controversy surrounding ...

With his support in freefall according to a slew of recent polls, and with Republicans warning him that his MAGA base is checking out ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, you’d think President Trump ...

Donald Trump recently told reporters he’d have “no problem” releasing video of U.S. strikes off the Venezuelan coast where two survivors clinging to the shipwreck were shown no quarter. After a first ...

War Secretary Pete Hegseth‘s circle of support is shrinking as he battles unsubstantiated charges from congressional Democrats and liberal media that he ordered a double-tap strike on a suspected ...

There is certainly much to investigate about Hegseth, who appears to have issued a second order to kill two stranded survivors in the first strike, and then proceeded to lie about doing so. Yet, amid ...

Surprise U.S. strikes on Venezuela and the capture of that country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, are putting the crescendo on a combative first year at the Pentagon for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

With his support in freefall according to a slew of recent polls, and with Republicans warning him that his MAGA base is checking out ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, you’d think President Trump ...