Joint Chiefs Chair Mark Milley for lowering standards. Hegseth vows to restore discipline and military readiness.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a sweeping, military-wide review of physical fitness and grooming standards with the apparent aim of making the military a stricter and less accommodating ...

Trump has fixated on the position of the Joint Chiefs chair since 2019, when he picked Gen. Mark Milley, Brown’s predecessor, a decision the president came to bitterly regret. Trump has complained in ...

Fast-forward to December 2018 when President Donald Trump nominated Gen. Mark Milley for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCOS), against the wishes of Secretary of Defense and former Marine Gen.

Jim Mattis and four other former defense secretaries called President Donald Trump’s ouster of Gen. CQ Brown and other top ...

Not long afterward, his name began to surface as the likely successor to Gen. Mark Milley, who was set to retire as Joint Chiefs chairman. As chairman, Brown spent much of his time on the wars in ...

Recent actions taken against the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley are more than punitive measures taken against a single officer. The retribution moves dangerously ...

Trump’s decision allowed Gallagher to retire as a SEAL. Challenged by then–Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley about the importance of military ethics and laws to combat troops, Trump responded ...

CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday ... his name began to surface as the likely successor to Gen. Mark Milley, who was set to retire as chairman.

Mark Milley, who was set to retire as chairman ... Austin III, and the Joint Chiefs chairman were Black.

Caine, a three-star general whom Trump has praised since at least 2019, helped lead an operation in Iraq against the Islamic State during Trump’s first term.

Since returning to the White House, US President Donald Trump has focused much anger on political rivals, former allies, ...