This was Ricky Buria, Hegseth's junior military assistant and one of the only holdovers from the last secretary's team. Buria ...

Watch live as defence secretary Lloyd Austin, Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Gen Charles Q Brown Jr, and defence comptroller Mike McCord were grilled on global conflicts before the House ...

Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was not informed that Austin ... and others would require Lloyd Austin’s immediate resignation. The American public’s ignorance as to the ...

Four of the five served in the military, including two — Mattis and Austin — who were four ... intent that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff complete a four-year term in office ...

The ceremony marking the passing of the torch from General Mark Milley to Brown was held with the participation of US President Joe Biden and Pentagon chief Lloyd ... the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...