BRUSSELS — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that NATO membership for Ukraine was unrealistic and in ...

Pete Hegseth has spent much of his first weeks in office focused on culture wars while saying little about America’s ...

In 2023, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the U.S. government spent $916 billion on ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum Monday ... themselves through courageous and valorous acts and/or through ...

Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth has ordered senior military and civilian Pentagon officials to cut 8% from the defense budget ...

A stark new reality in Europe — that its long-time ally and security guarantor, the United States, may not come to its rescue in a future war — has set the stage for a faster ramp-up in military ...

Hegseth held talks with U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey before meeting with Ukraine Defense Contract Group (UDCG) at NATO ...

The memo mandates an assessment of "the essentiality of contracts ... for the purpose of terminating or descoping contracts for activities that are not essential for the Department to fulfill its ...

The key criteria for those in the top-tier positions appear to be loyalty, wealth, and ideological fervor, not competence.

NATO members will have to bolster their defense spending by “considerably more than 3%” of their GDP, the alliance’s ...