John Thune has promised President-elect Donald Trump that Pete Hegseth has enough votes in the Senate to lead the Pentagon.

When asked for comment, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader John Thune said "two things we don't discuss publicly: Whip counts and private conversations with the president." ...

Hegseth was commissioned as an infantry officer in the Army National Guard and he served in Afghanistan and Iraq after 9/11.

A military appeals court ruled Monday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin could not withdraw plea agreements for Khalid ...

Justice Brett Eagleson joins 'Fox & Friends Weekend' to react to a military court judge voting to uphold plea deals given to alleged 9/11 masterminds.

He certainly does not have a “mandate” to do whatever he wants. As an initial example of misguided leadership, we only have ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will convene the final meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group next Thursday before ...

Stephen Feinberg, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Cerberus Capital Management, would be the next deputy secretary of defense.

The knives are out for the Defense Department’s unfunded priority lists—sometimes called the service branch “wish lists” ...

Business experience tends to be a necessary condition for success as a deputy secretary, though not all deputies had that ...

(JTA) — Analysts have been scrutinizing the record of Grant Shapps since he was appointed the United Kingdom’s new defense secretary on Thursday. A fact that may not appear on his resume ...