Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of polygraph tests to search for people leaking information to the news media was stopped at the direction of the White House after a senior ...

The unexplained removal of the first female head of the U.S. Naval Academy last week is the latest in a string of top ...

John Phelan and his chief of staff are taking control of the duties that would have gone to the future Navy undersecretary.

Suspicions about leaks and a mistrust of senior military officers have defined much of the defense secretary’s first six ...