FORT WAYNE, IN — U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth railed against a formerly "woke" culture in the U.S. military and outlined plans to rebuild and restore the troops at U.S. Sen. Jim Banks' annual ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) The 4th annual Northeast Indiana Defense Summit continues Wednesday in Fort Wayne. Secretary of War ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth promised to revive military machismo with a “warrior ethos” before an audience of hundreds of stone-faced U.S. Armed Forces officers, admirals and generals ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is forging ahead with his war on waistlines. Hegseth, who has rebranded himself as Donald Trump’s “Secretary of War,” doubled down Sunday on his verbal attack on “fat ...

The day activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at a campus event in Utah, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth paused while speaking to troops to say a short prayer for the felled conservative figure.

In early September 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the DoD and its leaders may use the names “Department of War” and “Secretary of War” in certain contexts. The ...