To counter risk from adversaries like Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and proxies such as the Houthis and Hamas, we maintain the Department of Defense. The DOD includes the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ...

Austin retired from the Army in 2016 only to be asked to return to the Pentagon by President Joe Biden in 2021, making history as the nation's first Black defense secretary.

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said farewell to his ... "We are not just any military. We are the United States military. We defend government of the people, by the people and ...

1975 - Austin is commissioned as a second lieutenant in the US Army upon graduation from West Point. Over the next 20 years, he holds a number of leadership positions and is stationed at bases in ...

The investigation details exasperation among key aides to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as he refused to disclose the extent of his medical crisis last year.

The Pentagon inspector general found in its review of Secretary of Defense Lloyd ... The report states that during the course of his hospitalization, Austin transferred authority of some of ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ... officials stress the usefulness of Austin’s hands-on approach and are not eager to see that leadership wane. The United States continues to be “the leader ...

It's typical for couples to share certain passions, and this is especially true for someone like Charlene Austin, who is the wife of United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (not to be ...

Uh, former Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin immediately put into place some policies and reimbursement so that troops that were based in states that no longer had access to abortions or to IVF ...

Under the 2022 Dobbs Supreme Court decision. Uh, former Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin immediately put into place some policies and reimbursement so that troops that were based in states that no ...

Mark Milley's portrait as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was taken down from the Pentagon hallway where all of the ...