I’m a Marine. I Can’t Get One Part of the Pete Hegseth Hearing Out of My Head.
I am not saying this will happen. What I’m pointing out is simply that Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense ...
The New York Times4d
Trump Pulls the Military Back Into the Political and Culture Wars
Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from a Pentagon hallway ... who had previously been the service’s second in command, graduated from the Coast Guard Academy in 1985 ...
The Times of Israel5d
Taking responsibility for Oct. 7 failures, IDF chief and head of Southern Command resign
In bombshell announcements on Tuesday, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen ... bases closest to the border overrun and the chain of command seemingly broken amid the chaos.
MSNBC2d
Retired Gen. Mark Milley becomes Team Trump’s new John McCain
serving in multiple command and leadership posts and deploying to some of the most dangerous parts of the world to protect and defend democracy. As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...
The Economist15d
How hard is it to run the Pentagon?
The military chain of command runs from the president to the defence secretary and then—skipping the joint chiefs of staff and the heads of the army, navy and air force—on to the commanders ...
Stars and Stripes11d
General in charge of Army Recruiting Command gets his third star
The commanding general of U.S. Army Recruiting Command, Maj. Gen. Johnny Davis, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant ...
Douglas Rooks: Why America often comes up short on presidential greatness
The writer, Viscount James Bryce, an English aristocrat writing for Europeans, made shrewd observations about the presidency ...
Stars and Stripes11d
DOD investigation concludes Austin is responsible for failure to notify Congress, White House of his cancer diagnosis as required
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is responsible for the Pentagon neglecting to tell Congress and the White House that the ...
The New York Times6d
Israel’s Military Chief to Step Down Over Hamas Attack
By Aaron Boxerman Reporting from Jerusalem The Israeli military’s chief of staff, Lt ... 20,000 Hamas operatives and decimated the chain of command in the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah ...
Opinion
Fitzpatrick: Military must go back to basics
There are three areas the next secretary of defense should focus on to restore a healthy interest in military service — culture, operational competence and the depoliticization of the military.