The Trump administration has already demonstrated open contempt for Black military officers, Salon's Amanda Marcotte argued in a new analysis published Tuesday, with newly-minted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth leading the way — and a disturbing part of Hegseth's religious background that reveals the depth of that contempt.
If you fire the people in charge of telling you that you’ve asked the military to do something illegal, it makes it seem like you might be up to something ... illegal.
The defense secretary has repeatedly derided the military lawyers for war crime prosecutions and battlefield rules of engagement.
There’s not many places that we can go for” such cuts, Maj. Gen. Joseph Kunkel said, with the Air Force smaller and older than it's ever been.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth admitted Sunday that he’d fired top military lawyers so that Donald Trump’s administration can get away with whatever it wants.
Experts say it's unlikely the Air Force could save $15 billion only targeting the kind of diversity and climate change programs Sec. Hegseth has derided.
He was an outstanding leader whose firing was demanded by Pete Hegseth before the Fox News host became secretary of defense.
The JAGs will be replaced by people who won’t “attempt to be roadblocks...to anything that happens,” Hegseth said on a Sunday morning Fox show. Expert reax: “The JAG firings are actually more worrisome than the senior officer reliefs,
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that the three fired judge advocates general (JAGs) were potential “roadblocks” to President Trump’s orders. “It’s not about roadblocks to an
In his first weeks in office, President Donald Trump did serious damage to America’s soft power by moving to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development and defund the National Endowment for Democracy. Now he seems bent on damaging U.S. hard power, too.
"Those who we need, who are the best and brightest, are going to stay. Those who are under performers — won't," said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.