The highest-ranking military officer in the country, the chairman has no direct command authority. His role is as a ...

No, President Donald Trump likely has little need for a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, given his penchant for ...

Caine is a career fighter jet pilot who defended Washington, D.C., during the 9/11 attacks and been adored by Trump since ...

The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot, broke a tradition in which the Joint Chiefs ...

Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and nominated in Brown’s place a retired ... Although he had a leadership ...

Caine, a three-star general whom Trump has praised since at least 2019, helped lead an operation in Iraq against the Islamic State during Trump’s first term.

President Donald Trump's choice last week to nominate Lt. Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine as his pick to be chairman of the Joint ...

Working in the CIA is a little bit like Fight Club…but the one thing I can say is, you know, they [CIA officers] are [...] More ...

Pete Hegseth, secretary of defense and a 2025 Wash100 Award winner, has announced the intention of President Donald Trump to ...

Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was startling ... He selected Caine, a general whom Trump said told him the Islamic State group could be “totally finished in one week.” ...

No, President Donald Trump likely has little need for a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ... a two-star deputy commander fighting the Islamic State group. Trump recounted the story in ...

served in the Middle East during the fight against the Islamic State and then worked at the CIA — to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...