Hegseth has earned for himself perhaps the best-known rebuke from the McCarthy era: “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” ...

John R. Deni is a research professor at the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, a nonresident senior fellow ...

Hegseth said DoD's civilian workers can handle the work performed under the canceled contracts as the DoD continues to shrink the side of its civilian workforce ...