Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said there is "nothing unprecedented" about President Donald Trump firing and replacing Department of Defense officials, during an interview on "FOX News Sunday." "There are lots of presidents who've made changes from FDR to Eisenhower to H.
In his first weeks in office, President Donald Trump did serious damage to America’s soft power by moving to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development and defund the National Endowment for Democracy. Now he seems bent on damaging U.S. hard power, too.
Trump’s decision to fire the JAG generals gives the game away. I served as a JAG officer in the United States Army Reserve and deployed to Iraq during the surge in 2007. I also served in South Korea during Operation Key Resolve in 2010, a military exercise in which American and South Korean forces responded to a simulated North Korean attack.
the secretary stumbled over his words and claimed that Barack Obama had fired “hundreds of militaries during his term.” WATCH: @SecDef Hegseth discusses sweeping changes at the Pentagon ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday defended the purge of top-level military officials amid blowback to the Friday night firings. The firing of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. CQ Brown Jr.,
The U.S. will begin removing transgender troops from the military within 30 days unless they obtain a waiver on a case-by-case basis, the Pentagon ... then-President Barack Obama's second term.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is defending President Donald Trump's firing of the nation's senior military officer and a wave of top dismissals at the Pentagon, insisting that they weren't unusual despite accusations that the new administration is injecting politics into the military.
Retired Gen. George Casey said Sunday that recent Pentagon firings by President Trump are “extremely destabilizing” to the military. “That’s extremely destabilizing at — at a time that’s a lot
Roosevelt, George H.W. Bush and Barack Obama. Obama, Hegseth said ... also noted that the Trump administration can change Pentagon policy without changing personnel, but added, that what ...
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