Top Pentagon Adviser Dan Caldwell Put on Leave in Leak Probe
Dan Caldwell, who has accompanied Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to meetings with foreign officials, was escorted from the Pentagon.
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Dan Caldwell, who has accompanied Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to meetings with foreign officials, was escorted from the Pentagon.
Pete Hegseth’s predecessor as defense secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III, started the roughly 50-nation group to support Kyiv after Russia invaded in 2022, but he has given up leadership.
Lt. Gen. Dan Caine will serve as the senior military adviser to President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
A cabinet member’s social feed is one example of the administration’s turn to reality-TV tactics — slick, showy, sometimes cruel — as a means of government.
The office of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the college to adhere to an executive order from President Trump banning educational material related to diversity, equity and inclusion topics.
In just three weeks, the Pentagon has used $200 million worth of munitions in Operation Rough Rider against the Houthi militia, officials said.
The review started in response to a joint bipartisan request last week from leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Democrats seemed to view Lt. Gen. Dan Caine as perhaps the best possible option, under the circumstances. Republicans embraced him.
Representative Victoria Spartz, a Republican, defended Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts to the federal government, drawing jeers from the crowd.
In public, President Trump has defended his national security adviser. But behind the scenes, he has been casting around for advice.