The U.S. military’s recruiting troubles came just as it was attempting a fundamental shift in its mission. For decades, the ...

It’s shameful, and will only make our troops and our nation less safe.” Then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin instituted the policy in October 2022 to ensure that troops who were assigned to ...

For those who believe Democrats’ unanimity in voting no was purely political, votes for the previous SecDef nominees, Democrats and Republicans, were as follows: Lloyd Austin, 93-2; Mark Esper ...

All three judges questioned Austin’s handling of the matter, suggesting that he could — and perhaps should — have acted far earlier than August, when he moved to scuttle pretrial agreements ...

Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) said in a recent interview that retired U.S. Army General Mark Milley and former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin should be court-martialed ― a military legal proceeding ...

No one is saying that promotions should ignore merit. Lowering the bar is replacing an accomplished leader like Lloyd Austin — a four-star general and the nation’s first Black secretary of ...

Three of his nominees, Lloyd Austin for defense secretary, Antony Blinken for secretary of state, and Janet Yellen as treasury secretary, were confirmed within one week and another two by the ...

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To much fanfare, the U.S. military bid farewell to the nation's 28th Secretary of Defense. Lloyd Austin graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1975 and went on to a 41-year ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin bid farewell Friday to the forces and personnel he has led through a tumultuous term that had three major military crises, a global pandemic and ...