Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Democrats, Republicans and President Trump are "failing to govern" amid the ongoing government shutdown. Why it matters: Panetta warned that defense spending can't depend on a patchwork of continuing resolutions,

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed US military leaders to verify that every member of the department watched the speech he delivered at an unusual gathering of senior officers in Quantico, VA last month and review the policy changes he announced in the wake of that event,

The Pentagon says Hegseth and other military leaders on board, who were travelling back from a Nato meeting, are safe.

Women veterans are denouncing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's speech to senior military leaders, specifically his agenda for military fitness.

The speech that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will give to hundreds of generals and admirals next week will be about the "warrior ethos" of the military, sources say.

The Pentagon's chief spokesman, Sean Parnell, responded with a vulgar "joke" when a HuffPost journalist asked about the colours of US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's tie, which resembled the Russian flag.

A Republican openly laughed at Pete Hegseth over a stunt in which the defense secretary tried to cosplay as Tom Cruise’s Top Gun character. Adam Kinzinger, a former Illinois congressman who was one of two Republicans on the House select committee that investigated the Jan.

The U.K. is prepared to deploy British troops to Ukraine to secure a future peace deal in the country, British Defense Secretary John Healey has said, ahead of a planned meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A 2023 report criticized "poor living conditions" in some barracks and said they "undermine quality of life and readiness" of the military.