Department of Defense

Esper said Monday he fired Spencer because Spencer had gone behind his back on handling the case of Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher.

Pentagon chief Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark E. Milley will brief reporters at 12 p.m. ET.

House Democrats on Monday subpoenaed the Pentagon and Office of Management and Budget for Ukraine-related documents.

The Pentagon said a temporary delay in $250 million of military aid to Ukraine did not negatively affect U.S. national security.

Marc Short sent Elijah Cummings (D-MD) a letter rebuking claims that the vice president’s trip served to benefit President Donald Trump or the Trump Organization.

The Trump administration is putting up about a mile of border wall per day with a goal of reaching 450 miles by the end of next year.

China will dominate the next generation of telecommunications infrastructure in the absence of U.S. industrial policy to help finance construction of a nationwide 5G network, said retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Rick Manning.

The Financial Times on Wednesday reported that the Pentagon is compiling a list of companies with links to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) or Chinese intelligence services in order to protect U.S. military secrets and secure America’s supply of military equipment.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg released his plan to combat climate change on Wednesday, warning of the changes needed at the Department of Defense to combat what he described as a national security threat.

Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis defended his decision to remain silent about any criticism of President Donald Trump, citing an American tradition and a duty to keep his own counsel on matters of politics.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford will brief the media at 1:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper will soon receive a series of briefings on a Pentagon program that could thrust him into deciding whether or not Amazon snags a potentially $10 billion defense contract to create a giant data cloud for the Department of Defense.

Calls for the firing of Department of Defense spokeswoman Elissa Smith, a career official, have ramped up after it was revealed last week that she boosted and shared criticisms of President Donald Trump through her personal Twitter account.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) assailed President Donald Trump as “a pathological liar” when discussing foreign policy at the second Democrat debate on Tuesday. 

Department of Defense spokeswoman Elissa Smith, a career official, is facing scrutiny after it was revealed that several of her tweets and retweets suggest a political bias that does not support President Donald Trump’s agenda.

WASHINGTON, DC, the Capitol Building — Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Congress needs to scrutinize “egregious” federal contractor “bogus bonuses.”

President Trump announced Tuesday in a tweet that Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan will no longer seek the nomination to become permanent defense secretary.

Amazon may have influenced the federal government’s decision making process on a $10 billion defense contract it was bidding by secretly offering one of the Pentagon officials involved in the deal a job.

WASHINGTON, DC — Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), during a House panel hearing on Thursday, complained that U.S. President Donald Trump has dramatically intensified American airstrikes in her native Somalia that have killed hundreds of members of the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab.

The Department of Defense is shifting another $1.5 billion to build a “big & beautiful” border wall, says a tweet from pro-migration Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin. 

The View’s Meghan McCain on Wednesday blasted President Donald Trump’s transgender military ban, describing it as “an unfair, un-American, and dangerous policy.”

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, chided Democrats and some Republicans for putting trans rights above troop safety.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Thursday after he testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee he is not worried by a progressive watchdog group’s request that the Pentagon inspector general investigate whether he has acted unethically to help his former employer Boeing during his time at the Defense Department.

Troops will see a pay raise of 3.1 percent in January under President Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget request.

The Pentagon Inspector General is investigating allegations that a two-star Army general is retaliating against active-duty Green Beret instructors under his command who have voiced concerns over his lowering of standards for Green Beret candidates, three sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s Pentagon security clearance is currently under review by the Department of Defense following the CEO’s appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast where he drank whiskey and smoked marijuana.

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday to create a cabinet-level task force to address the national tragedy of veteran suicides, a senior administration official confirmed.The task force will be led by Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie and

Hundreds of pounds of cocaine were smuggled from Mexico into the U.S. and Canada, and now one of the men responsible has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for it.

Between 300 and 550 Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadis remain active in the Philippines, a testament to the lingering threat posed by the jihadi group despite efforts by U.S.-backed local forces.

The Department of Defense is moving 250 active duty military personnel to the Texas border in response to the arrival of Central American migrants near Eagle Pass. The troops are being moved from assignments in Arizona.