Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (pictured at the White House this past month) announced the military on Tuesday night sunk another alleged drug-smuggling vessel in international waters while on its way to the United States. File Photo by Francis Chung/UPI ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth leaves after a bilateral meeting with Malaysia's Defense Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin ahead of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Defense Ministers' Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. | Dita Alangkara

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas on Monday as he began a two-day visit to ally South Korea for security talks. Hegseth and South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back received a briefing from military officials at Observation Post Ouellette,

The changes include a replacement of DoD's program executive officers with "portfolio acquisition executives" that Hegseth said would have more authority.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth landed Sunday in Vietnam's capital Hanoi, where he is expected to meet his Vietnamese counterpart Phan Van Giang.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is going to extreme lengths to make sure every member of the military listens to what he says. That includes the lengthy speech he made late last month that was basically a diatribe against “fat generals and admirals in the ...

The highly decorated head of a critical Navy research office has been replaced with a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no military experience in a new purge of senior officers at the Pentagon under Pete Hegseth. A three-star general serving on the Joint Staff was also pushed out, according to reports.