Critics say Hegseth's fixation on service members' appearances mirrors a campaign by the Russian military to clamp down on non-standard haircuts amid its one million casualties in Ukraine ...

The unexplained removal of the first female head of the U.S. Naval Academy last week is the latest in a string of top military women who have either been fired or moved to largely invisible roles ...

President Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is so obsessed with grooming in the U.S. Armed Forces that he’s ...

After his nomination, Hegseth was careful to praise women’s “indispensable role” in the military, as he told the podcaster Megyn Kelly in December. “The women of the Pentagon, of our ...