The gathering of the United States’ highest ranking generals and admirals at U.S. Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia on Sept. 30 was the “most bizarre thing I’ve seen in my time on Earth,” said ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has lost what respect and trust he still had among some top military officials over his wild rant to the nation’s generals, according to an explosive report. Multiple ...

“They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest.” — President Franklin Roosevelt. George Washington’s farewell to his officers. Dwight Eisenhower’s message to his troops the eve ...

Readers respond to a guest essay that put Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s speech in a more favorable light. To the Editor: Re “Don’t Be So Quick to Dismiss That Hegseth Speech,” by Christopher ...

The secretary of war’s plea for discipline collapses into its opposite—a demand for wanton violence and mayhem Secretary of War Pete Hegseth listens as President Donald Trump speaks to senior military ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Re “Trump’s unusual call to military chiefs,” Page A2, Oct. 1: In a dazzling display of the Dunning-Kruger effect, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, a former major in the Army National Guard who ...

Mike Johnson was urged to address comments made by Donald Trump during his Quantico address. US Democratic Representative Madeleine Dean on Wednesday confronted House Speaker Mike Johnson, a ...

Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) on Thursday said President Trump was “incoherent” when he spoke to the country’s top generals and admirals at a meeting in Quantico, Va., earlier in the week. “Apparently, ...

The government shutdown is …taking over the political conversation…But I urge everyone not to overlook the dangerous speech Donald Trump (and Pete Hegseth) gave yesterday in front of members of the ...

The Marine Corps’ famed Basic School is evolving. Under Trump, recruits face new orders that blur the line between overseas warfare and domestic operations. Monocle visits the base to observe. A good ...