Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to confirm on Thursday that the Pentagon has drawn up contingency plans to seize control of Greenland and Panama by force, sparking outrage and disbelief during a congressional hearing. Grilled repeatedly by Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee about his handling of classified military discussions on Signal chats, Hegseth…
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth (Image credit: AP) Bedevilled by leaks to the media during his short tenure, Defence Secretary Pete Hegsethissued a series of restrictions on the press late Friday that include banning reporters from entering wide swaths of the Pentagon without a government escort – areas where the press has had access in past…
Four days after he was sworn in as defense secretary, Pete Hegseth directed the military service academies to scrub their curriculum of ideologies President Trump had deemed “divisive,” “un-American” and “irrational.” Hours later, department heads at West Point sent civilian and military professors emails asking for their course syllabuses. Some professors said they assumed the…
What is correct is that the president’s war on academia has focused intensely on the Ivy League, the richly endowed collection of eight schools, most founded in the colonial era, that cost $90,000 or more a year, send a disproportionate number of graduates into America’s leadership class and accounted for less than 1 percent of…
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth is under fire after saying that he had dismantled a Defense Department program that supported women on military security teams. He described it as “woke,” even though it was signed into law in 2017 by US President Donald Trump. On X (formerly Twitter), Hegseth posted, “This morning, I proudly ENDED the…
For 65 years, the U.S. Naval Academy’s annual foreign affairs conference has been a marquee event on campus, bringing in students from around the world for a week of lectures and discussions with high-ranking diplomats and officials. But this year, the event was abruptly canceled, just weeks before it was set to start. The conference…
The White House has reportedly begun searching for a new Defence Secretary to replace Pete Hegseth, following explosive revelations that he leaked classified military information through private group chats on the encrypted app Signal. The move comes on the heels of a New York Times expose on April 20, which revealed that Hegseth shared minute-by-minute…
President Donald Trump came to the defense of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday, dismissing fresh reports that Hegseth shared sensitive military information in a private Signal messaging chat with his wife, brother, and others. “I guess it sounds like disgruntled employees,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “You know, he was put there…
When military leaders from roughly 50 nations met in Brussels on Friday to discuss aid shipments to Kyiv, one was noticeably absent: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Instead of attending the gathering, the 27th meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, in person, Mr. Hegseth dialed in and participated virtually. It was the first time since…
The Navy released the titles of 381 books on Friday evening that were removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s Nimitz Library on the Annapolis, Md., campus this week because their subject matter was seen as being related to so-called diversity, equity and inclusion topics. President Trump issued an executive order in January that banned D.E.I….