In all, it was a bruising, 72-hour crash course in the geopolitical realities of a job that critics complain Mr. Hegseth, a ...

The U.S. secretary of defense previously addressed allegations of excessive drinking during his January 2025 Senate confirmation hearing.

This administration is deeply insensitive and deeply unserious.

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

The United States was represented by newly minted Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who seemed to revel in standing out from ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's attention-grabbing overseas debut may have irritated some key Republicans and alienated ...

A senior Pentagon official said that money saved through the cuts could be “realigned” to other defense priorities that ...

Spending at the 3.5% level, which NATO’s leadership supports, would allow Europe to implement Supreme Allied Commander Europe ...

NATO members are continuing their largest combat exercises of 2025 amid concern within the 32-nation alliance over its most ...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte weighs in on talks to end Russia's war in Ukraine and the future of the military alliance ...

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

Putin must scarcely believe his luck. The Trump administration’s position means Russia will almost certainly retain the ...