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Pete Hegseth

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Pentagon: the generals he fired, the controversies, military morale, and the congressional fights over his leadership.

57 articles · Started 2026-06-14 · Last updated 2026-10-09

Oct 09, 2026 Hegseth Wants to Livestream a Firing Squad, and Even JD Vance Is Backing Away

Hegseth Wants to Livestream a Firing Squad, and Even JD Vance Is Backing Away

The Pentagon wants to put a human being in front of a firing squad on December 3 and stream it to the public, a first in American history. The vice president's...
Oct 08, 2026 Hegseth Promises Public Will Get to Watch Fort Hood Shooter's Firing Squad

Hegseth Promises Public Will Get to Watch Fort Hood Shooter's Firing Squad

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth went on Real America's Voice and told the public they will be able to watch the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan by...
Oct 06, 2026 Hegseth Spoke Before a Stiff-Winged Eagle Straight Out of the Third Reich's Playbook

Hegseth Spoke Before a Stiff-Winged Eagle Straight Out of the Third Reich's Playbook

Pete Hegseth stood before Air Force Academy cadets on Saturday in front of a Department of War logo that does not appear in the Pentagon's own branding guide....
Oct 05, 2026 Pentagon Announces First Firing Squad Execution Since 1945, Posts 'Judgement Day' on X

Pentagon Announces First Firing Squad Execution Since 1945, Posts 'Judgement Day' on X

The Pentagon announced Monday that it will put a former Army major in front of a firing squad, the first time the US military has used that method since 1945....
Oct 04, 2026 Retiring GOP Senator Calls Hegseth Vote His 'Biggest Regret' as Iran War Drags On

Retiring GOP Senator Calls Hegseth Vote His 'Biggest Regret' as Iran War Drags On

A sitting Republican senator just went on 60 Minutes, called his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth his single biggest regret, demanded Hegseth resign over the Iran...
Oct 01, 2026 Hegseth Creates 'Office of Religious Affairs,' Hands Chaplains His Cell Number

Hegseth Creates 'Office of Religious Affairs,' Hands Chaplains His Cell Number

Pete Hegseth stood at a podium in Quantico on September 30th and announced that the United States military is, in his words, 'putting on the full armor of...
Sep 30, 2026 Hegseth Wants to Fire 20% of Generals, One Year After Yelling at Them About Beards

Hegseth Wants to Fire 20% of Generals, One Year After Yelling at Them About Beards

Pete Hegseth, a man whose most notable pre-government credential was co-hosting Fox & Friends, is set to announce a 20% cut to the number of generals and...
Sep 28, 2026 Hegseth Just Put the Military in Charge of Your Election

Hegseth Just Put the Military in Charge of Your Election

Pete Hegseth, the man who was confirmed as Defense Secretary despite everything, has now ordered military personnel to deploy artificial intelligence and cyber...
Sep 24, 2026 Eight Sailors Tried to Kill Themselves on Lincoln. Hegseth Called It Fake News.

Eight Sailors Tried to Kill Themselves on Lincoln. Hegseth Called It Fake News.

Eight sailors assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during a nine-month deployment that Pete Hegseth spent publicly...
Sep 18, 2026 Johnson Fled Town to Save Hegseth From a Vote He'd Probably Lose

Johnson Fled Town to Save Hegseth From a Vote He'd Probably Lose

House Speaker Mike Johnson sent the entire House of Representatives home seven weeks early this month, and the timing is not a coincidence. Republican Rep....
Sep 15, 2026 GOP Rep Files 8 Articles to Impeach Hegseth for Iran War Nobody Voted For

GOP Rep Files 8 Articles to Impeach Hegseth for Iran War Nobody Voted For

A Republican congressman walked onto the House floor Tuesday, read eight articles of impeachment against the Secretary of War for over an hour, and then dared...
Sep 08, 2026 Hegseth Has Now Purged So Many Generals the Army Has No One Left to Run His Wars

Hegseth Has Now Purged So Many Generals the Army Has No One Left to Run His Wars

The United States Army Secretary just resigned because Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News pundit with no combat command experience, kept firing the generals...
Sep 06, 2026 Polygraphs for Generals, Depleted Missiles, and a War With No Exit: The Pentagon Is a Mess

Polygraphs for Generals, Depleted Missiles, and a War With No Exit: The Pentagon Is a Mess

The United States military is polygraphing its own combatant commanders over leaked data about weapons stockpiles that are, according to a senior member of the...
Sep 05, 2026 Republican Senator Calls Hegseth 'Most Inept' Defense Chief Ever, Demands Trump Fire Him

Republican Senator Calls Hegseth 'Most Inept' Defense Chief Ever, Demands Trump Fire Him

Pete Hegseth has not held a formal Pentagon press briefing since May 5th. There is a war on. Fifty thousand American troops are deployed in the Middle East....
Sep 02, 2026 Pentagon Orders Mandatory T-Level Tests for Troops 30 and Up

Pentagon Orders Mandatory T-Level Tests for Troops 30 and Up

Pete Hegseth announced mandatory testosterone screening for U.S. troops in a social media video he personally titled 'The High-T Department of War,' and now,...
Sep 02, 2026 Hegseth Mocks Canadian Kids in Uniform. They're Teenagers.

Hegseth Mocks Canadian Kids in Uniform. They're Teenagers.

Pete Hegseth, the United States Secretary of Defense, spent his Monday night body-shaming what he believed to be Canadian soldiers. They were teenagers at a...
Aug 31, 2026 Army Secretary Quits, Blaming Hegseth for Firing the Generals

Army Secretary Quits, Blaming Hegseth for Firing the Generals

The Army Secretary just rage-quit the Pentagon, and he apparently told the White House exactly who to blame. Dan Driscoll submitted his resignation after...
Aug 29, 2026 Pete Hegseth Is Apparently Running for President Now. Sure.

Pete Hegseth Is Apparently Running for President Now. Sure.

Pete Hegseth, the Defense Secretary best known for making the Pentagon's chaos look like a controlled demolition, is now telling people he wants to be...
Aug 23, 2026 Navy Sailor Fights Iran War at Sea. ICE Arrests His Dad at a Publix.

Navy Sailor Fights Iran War at Sea. ICE Arrests His Dad at a Publix.

A U.S. Navy sailor has spent nine months at sea in the Middle East, fighting a war, setting records for time without a port call, working 12-hour days on a...
Aug 20, 2026 Navy May Strip Black WWII Hero's Name Off Carrier to Put Trump's On It

Navy May Strip Black WWII Hero's Name Off Carrier to Put Trump's On It

The United States Navy is discussing stripping the name of Doris Miller, a Black WWII hero who manned an anti-aircraft gun at Pearl Harbor while people were...
Aug 20, 2026 Trump Said 250 Days at Sea 'Not Long Enough.' They're Finally Going Home.

Trump Said 250 Days at Sea 'Not Long Enough.' They're Finally Going Home.

Five thousand sailors and Marines who spent nine months at sea, more than 200 of those days without a single port stop, with food shortages and crew members...
Aug 17, 2026 Trump Said USS Lincoln Hasn't Been Deployed 'Nearly Long Enough.' Sailors Are Running Out of Soap.

Trump Said USS Lincoln Hasn't Been Deployed 'Nearly Long Enough.' Sailors Are Running Out of Soap.

The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for nearly nine months, its sailors running short on food, hygiene products, and mental health support, while their...
Aug 17, 2026 Trump Guts South Korea War Games as a Gift to Kim Jong Un

Trump Guts South Korea War Games as a Gift to Kim Jong Un

Donald Trump announced Sunday that he is ordering the Pentagon to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea because, in his own words, North Korea...
Aug 14, 2026 USS Lincoln Sailors Hit 260 Days at Sea With Broken Toilets and Food Shortages

USS Lincoln Sailors Hit 260 Days at Sea With Broken Toilets and Food Shortages

The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for more than 260 consecutive days, a record, and according to sailors' families, the conditions aboard have gotten...
Aug 14, 2026 5,000 Sailors Stuck at Sea for 250 Days While Trump Bets on His Own Words

5,000 Sailors Stuck at Sea for 250 Days While Trump Bets on His Own Words

More than 5,000 American sailors have been floating in the Middle East for 250 days, running low on fresh food, rarely seeing sunlight, and losing their minds...
Aug 13, 2026 USS Lincoln Sailors Are Jumping Overboard. The Navy Says Morale Is Fine.

USS Lincoln Sailors Are Jumping Overboard. The Navy Says Morale Is Fine.

The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for over 200 consecutive days, breaking records nobody wanted to break. Sailors are allegedly attempting to jump...
Aug 12, 2026 USS Lincoln Sailors Tried to Jump Overboard After 250 Days at Sea

USS Lincoln Sailors Tried to Jump Overboard After 250 Days at Sea

Sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to jump overboard during a record-breaking deployment that has kept 5,000 crew members at sea for 250...
Aug 11, 2026 Hegseth Put Two Men on the Pentagon's Advisory Board Who Both Have Ties to Trump Jr.'s Venture Fund

Hegseth Put Two Men on the Pentagon's Advisory Board Who Both Have Ties to Trump Jr.'s Venture Fund

Pete Hegseth just stocked the Pentagon's premier advisory board with two men who have direct financial ties to a venture capital fund co-run by Donald Trump's...
Aug 07, 2026 Trump Calls Hegseth 'One of My Best' While His Own Allies Say He Can't Run a War

Trump Calls Hegseth 'One of My Best' While His Own Allies Say He Can't Run a War

With the United States six months into an unpopular war with Iran, Donald Trump rang up NBC News to personally vouch for the man running the Pentagon. "I think...
Aug 06, 2026 Trump Calls Weapons Stockpile Reporting 'Treasonous' While America Fights Iran

Trump Calls Weapons Stockpile Reporting 'Treasonous' While America Fights Iran

The United States is actively fighting a war with Iran, the country's weapons stockpile is apparently a problem serious enough for the President to lose his...
Aug 06, 2026 Trump Threatens Jail for Leakers Who Exposed We're Almost Out of Missiles

Trump Threatens Jail for Leakers Who Exposed We're Almost Out of Missiles

The United States has burned through virtually its entire stockpile of long-range precision missiles in the war with Iran, and the man responsible for that...
Jul 30, 2026 Wounded Iran War Troops Drove Themselves to Hospital. Hegseth Has No Comment.

Wounded Iran War Troops Drove Themselves to Hospital. Hegseth Has No Comment.

Some of the soldiers wounded in the first major US combat attack of America's war on Iran drove themselves to a hospital in Kuwait City, because there was no...
Jul 27, 2026 Hegseth Gutted the Pentagon's Civilian Casualty Team From 40 to 9 People Then Bombed a School

Hegseth Gutted the Pentagon's Civilian Casualty Team From 40 to 9 People Then Bombed a School

Pete Hegseth dismantled the Pentagon's civilian protection unit, slashed its staff by 77 percent, and scrapped the database used to track civilian deaths in...
Jul 26, 2026 Pentagon Split Its Own Iran War in Two to Dodge the Law

Pentagon Split Its Own Iran War in Two to Dodge the Law

The Pentagon has apparently decided that if the law doesn't work for you, you just chop the war in half and pretend you have two shorter ones. According to The...
Jul 23, 2026 Pentagon Quietly Deleted 4 Dead Soldiers From Its Own Casualty List

Pentagon Quietly Deleted 4 Dead Soldiers From Its Own Casualty List

The Pentagon published an official list of American service members killed in the Iran war. Then, quietly, four names disappeared. Those four soldiers had...
Jul 22, 2026 Pete Hegseth Tells Senate Iran War Cost $37.5B. He Wants $88B More.

Pete Hegseth Tells Senate Iran War Cost $37.5B. He Wants $88B More.

Pete Hegseth walked into the Senate, announced that the US-Israel war on Iran has already cost $37.5 billion, and then asked for $88 billion more. Three...
Jul 22, 2026 Hegseth Blames Democrats for Iran War He Can't End

Hegseth Blames Democrats for Iran War He Can't End

Pete Hegseth walked into a Senate hearing on Tuesday to defend a war that has now dragged past 80 days, cost $80 billion, and produced no exit strategy, and...
Jul 22, 2026 Trump's Iran War Is Now 11 Nights Old, $37.5B Deep, and Going Nowhere

Trump's Iran War Is Now 11 Nights Old, $37.5B Deep, and Going Nowhere

On election night 2024, Donald Trump told the country, 'I'm not going to start wars.' On February 28, 2026, he bombed Iran. Five months, $37.5 billion, three...
Jul 21, 2026 Hegseth Marches to Congress Demanding $350 Billion More to Play With

Hegseth Marches to Congress Demanding $350 Billion More to Play With

Pete Hegseth, the Fox News host turned Secretary of Defense who has spent the better part of his tenure generating scandal faster than the Pentagon generates...
Jul 17, 2026 Court Lets Pentagon Keep Babysitting Reporters Like Toddlers at a Museum

Court Lets Pentagon Keep Babysitting Reporters Like Toddlers at a Museum

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Pentagon can keep requiring journalists to be escorted around its own headquarters like shoplifting suspects at...
Jul 17, 2026 U.S. Bombed Six Bridges in Iran. Iran Shot at Kuwait. Oil Is Up 10%.

U.S. Bombed Six Bridges in Iran. Iran Shot at Kuwait. Oil Is Up 10%.

The United States bombed six bridges in Iran on Friday. Iran responded by launching missiles and drones at Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman. Pete Hegseth posted a...
Jul 17, 2026 Hegseth's 'High-T War Dept' + Vance's Corn Dog Secret = America

Hegseth's 'High-T War Dept' + Vance's Corn Dog Secret = America

The United States is currently fighting a rebooted war with Iran, and the Secretary of Defense's big strategic innovation is mandatory testosterone screening...
Jul 15, 2026 Hegseth Orders Mandatory Testosterone Tests for Soldiers Over 30

Hegseth Orders Mandatory Testosterone Tests for Soldiers Over 30

Pete Hegseth, a man who was confirmed as Secretary of Defense despite allegations that would have disqualified him from serving in the military he now...
Jul 14, 2026 Hegseth's Navy Beard Meltdown Is Exactly as Pathetic as It Sounds

Hegseth's Navy Beard Meltdown Is Exactly as Pathetic as It Sounds

The Secretary of Defense of the United States of America boarded a Navy warship, spotted some beards, and had a meltdown. According to a CNN report cited by...
Jul 13, 2026 Hegseth Launches DOJ Taskforce to Hunt Reporters' Sources

Hegseth Launches DOJ Taskforce to Hunt Reporters' Sources

Pete Hegseth, a man who was confirmed to run the United States military despite having no relevant qualifications, has now decided the real threat to national...
Jul 12, 2026 US Bombs Iran Again After Ship Attack, Iran Hits Four Gulf Nations Back

US Bombs Iran Again After Ship Attack, Iran Hits Four Gulf Nations Back

The United States bombed 140 targets inside Iran on Sunday morning after Iran set a container ship ablaze and forced its crew to abandon it in the Strait of...
Jun 25, 2026 Pentagon Mandates Flu Shots Again After Making Them Optional Caused 275 Cases

Pentagon Mandates Flu Shots Again After Making Them Optional Caused 275 Cases

Pete Hegseth made flu shots optional for military recruits in late April, citing 'medical autonomy.' By June, nearly 300 people at Air Force boot camp in San...
Jun 24, 2026 The Last Soldier Out of Afghanistan Just Got Pushed Out by Hegseth

The Last Soldier Out of Afghanistan Just Got Pushed Out by Hegseth

The man photographed boarding the last plane out of Afghanistan in 2021 just got his own exit arranged for him. Gen. Christopher Donahue, commander of US Army...
Jun 23, 2026 Pentagon's Iran War Bill Is $80B — Double What It Told Congress

Pentagon's Iran War Bill Is $80B — Double What It Told Congress

The Pentagon told Congress the Iran war cost around $29 billion. Now it wants $80 billion. That's not a rounding error. That's not a miscalculation. That's the...
Jun 18, 2026 Hegseth Killed Mandatory Flu Shots. 159 Recruits Got Flu.

Hegseth Killed Mandatory Flu Shots. 159 Recruits Got Flu.

Pete Hegseth ended mandatory flu vaccinations for US troops in April, wrapping it in the language of bodily autonomy and warrior freedom. It is now June, and...
Jun 18, 2026 Hegseth Calls NATO Allies 'Shameful' for Not Letting US Bomb Iran From Their Bases

Hegseth Calls NATO Allies 'Shameful' for Not Letting US Bomb Iran From Their Bases

Pete Hegseth flew to Brussels, stood in front of America's closest military allies, and called them shameful. Not for anything they did to us. For not letting...
Jun 18, 2026 The Invisible Man Running the Pentagon Is a Private Equity Billionaire

The Invisible Man Running the Pentagon Is a Private Equity Billionaire

Pete Hegseth is out there doing push-ups with soldiers and screaming at journalists, and somehow he's not the most powerful person at the Department of...
Jun 18, 2026 Pentagon May Classify Its Own Report on Killing 170 Kids in Iran

Pentagon May Classify Its Own Report on Killing 170 Kids in Iran

The U.S. military probably killed more than 170 people, most of them children, when it struck an elementary school in Iran on the first day of the war. Nearly...
Jun 16, 2026 Pentagon Is Out of Missiles and Hegseth Says the Stockpiles Are 'Great'

Pentagon Is Out of Missiles and Hegseth Says the Stockpiles Are 'Great'

The United States may have burned through more than half of its inventory of four critical munitions fighting Iran, including Tomahawk missiles, and the...
Jun 16, 2026 Trump May Fire Hegseth and Ratcliffe for Opposing His Iran Deal

Trump May Fire Hegseth and Ratcliffe for Opposing His Iran Deal

Donald Trump reportedly wants to fire his own Secretary of Defense and CIA Director for the crime of disagreeing with him about a nuclear deal. Not leaking....
Jun 14, 2026 Hegseth Says Iran Deal Is 'Not a Matter of If' While Missiles Are Still Flying

Hegseth Says Iran Deal Is 'Not a Matter of If' While Missiles Are Still Flying

On Sunday morning, while the Israeli Defense Forces were bombing Beirut's southern suburbs and Hezbollah was firing rockets into northern Israel, Defense...
Jun 14, 2026 Hegseth Says Iran Deal Is Done. Trump Says Israel Screwed It Up.

Hegseth Says Iran Deal Is Done. Trump Says Israel Screwed It Up.

On Sunday morning, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth went on CBS and told the country that a US-Iran memorandum of understanding was basically a done deal....