One witness the Senate ought to call when it sits to decide whether to confirm General Lloyd Austin as secretary of defense is General James Mattis. He’s the only living four-star general to have been ...

Retired general needs a congressional waiver to take traditionally civilian role As a recently retired military general is Lloyd Austin the right pick to run the Defense Department under a Biden ...

America’s next secretary of defense could be starkly different from what the country has ever seen before. On Tuesday, just a day after Veterans Day, President-elect Donald Trump selected Pete Hegseth ...

The retired Army general was confirmed Friday after being granted a waiver. Retired U.S. Army Gen. Lloyd Austin on Friday took over as the first black Pentagon chief shortly after being confirmed 93-2 ...

President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate Lloyd Austin, a retired U.S. Army general, to serve as secretary of the Department of Defense, Politico reported Monday. Austin would be the first African ...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon Inspector General released a scathing report Wednesday about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s failure to alert the White House and his senior staff about his hospitalization ...