A little over a year after President Donald J. Trump rechristened the Department of Defense as the Department of War, the name change sends a clearer message to allies and adversaries alike about the department's mission, said Chief Pentagon Spokesman and Senior Advisor Sean Parnell.
In an open letter to industry partners and the joint force this week, Project Agincourt leaders set the tone for how the Autonomous Warfare Command will develop.
On the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth met with two groups of young Americans who opted to defend the nation, falling in line behind generations of Americans who served the nation since the nation was founded.
Project Agincourt as a pathway to a four-star-led Autonomous Warfare Command has always been in the cards, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said at the 2026 Association of the United States Army annual meeting and exposition.
President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the development of a new shipyard, to be called "Arsenal-2," during a ceremony at the future site in Sparrows Point, Md.
About 600 midcareer enlisted service members and officers formed up on the Pentagon's parade field for the chance to do a morning workout with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
Every seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and a third of U.S. Senate seats, some 470 contests in all, will be decided during the U.S. midterm elections Nov. 3, and the War Department will help ensure foreign actors don't meddle in the voting.
More than 100 exhibits related to energy innovation are on display at the Pentagon, including the Army's Tactical Microgrid Standard, the Navy's system to use microwaves to beam limitless power from space and the Air Force's Modular Energy for Tactical Expeditionary Operations Resource system.
At Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told future officers that the U.S. military they will enter places a premium on meritocracy, and that once they put on their uniforms, they will march into formations that value them only for what they bring to the fight.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth swore in new military recruits in Austin, Texas, promising that the War Department will prioritize and protect America's warfighters.
The War Department released clinical practice guidelines for medical professionals across the force on how to evaluate and treat potential testosterone deficiencies in male warfighters.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Boris Pistorius, Germany's defense minister, met at the Pentagon to discuss NATO 3.0, increased European defense spending and the defense industrial bases of both nations.
Rebuilding the defense industrial base means more than just facilities and businesses. It also means having the right people to do the skilled work, said Michael Cadenazzi, the assistant secretary of war for industrial base policy, during a field hearing before the House Appropriations Committee's defense subcommittee.
The War Department increased its artificial intelligence offerings by launching versions of Grok and ChatGPT to GenAI.mil to go alongside Google's Gemini.
Service members assigned to Joint Task Force Southern Border used the Army Multipurpose High Energy Laser system to stop three hostile, unmanned aircraft systems deemed a threat. They were believed to be linked to drug cartels.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told military personnel assigned to U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., that they are the center of America's deterrent capability.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth met in Panama with U.S. service members who are learning how to survive in the most brutal, unforgiving jungles of the Western Hemisphere, all while retaining their combat effectiveness.
In Panama, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told members of the recently established Americas Counter Cartel Coalition that the U.S. is firmly committed to working alongside them to dismantle dangerous transnational criminal drug cartels.
Joint Base Charleston, S.C., became Joint Base Lindsey Graham during a ceremony to rename the installation after the late senator, Air Force veteran and South Carolina native son.
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