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How a Lloyd Austin aide became Pete Hegseth’s ‘only guy standing’

While Hegseth fired or reassigned several top advisers, a Marine colonel on his staff has ascended.

By Noah Robertson

3 days ago

Former Pentagon chiefs call for hearings on military leaders’ firings

Five former defense chiefs are calling on Congress to hold immediate hearings on Trump's firings of the Joint Chiefs chairman and other senior leaders.

By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press

8 weeks ago

Lloyd Austin ends term marred by Afghanistan but buoyed by Ukraine

Defense Secretary Austin will bid farewell Friday following a term that included three major military crises, a global pandemic and a brush with cancer.

By Tara Copp, AP

3 months ago

Trump’s Pentagon should expand innovation hub, tech panel says

The Defense Innovation Board says DIU needs a bigger budget and more infrastructure to help guide nontraditional firms to scale technology.

By Courtney Albon

3 months ago

Watchdog: Pentagon chief’s secret hospital stay ‘unnecessarily’ risky

A Pentagon watchdog found no harm to U.S. national security but said the incident raised the odds of such issues.

By Noah Robertson

3 months ago

Biden administration temporarily blocks 9/11 plea deal

It's the latest development in the U.S. military's struggle to bring to justice the man charged with planning the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.

4 months ago