Pete Hegseth’s Defense Department minions have begun firing back after a blistering criticism of his abilities. Senior officers accused Hegseth of a range of failings, including a fixation on grooming rules,

The Pentagon is sending the world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, and its carrier air wing to the Caribbean as the Trump administration conducts strikes against boats it says

Last week, reporters for major broadcast and cable news networks, including Fox News, as well as the Associated Press, The New York Times and The Washington Post declined to sign on to the new Pentagon policy. They objected to provisions in the policy that read as if they were agreeing to only seek Pentagon-approved information.

“Today, the Department of War is announcing the next generation of the Pentagon press corps,” wrote chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell on Wednesday. He claimed over 60 “journalists, representing a broad spectrum of new media outlets and independent journalists,” signed the Pentagon’s access policy.

The Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parnell has responded with a vulgar joke to a question from a HuffPost journalist about the colours of US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's tie, which resembled the Russian flag.