Former Labor defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon reacts to US Defence Secretary Peter Hegseth urging Australia to increase ...

The US defence secretary says there is 'near consensus' on a 5% defence spending commitment for Nato member states.

On the contrary, we will keep getting our defence policy completely wrong if we see defence spending as the price we pay for the US to defend us. We must see it instead as the investment we make in ...

Our message is going to continue to be clear. It's deterrence and peace through strength, but it can't be reliance,' Hegseth ...

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered the message as he met ministers from the military alliance in Brussels.

The United States has urged Britain to hike its defence spending to five per cent as NATO members close in on agreeing new ...

Things were going fine for Pete Hegseth, right up until a chance encounter with the world’s richest man. His pursuit of Donald Trump’s agenda at the Pentagon had made him a star among the president’s ...

Pete Hegseth, a former army major and now America’s defence secretary, celebrates soldiers “with dust on their boots”. But ...

Donald Trump has said he held a phone call with Vladimir Putin he told him “very strongly” that Russia would have to respond to Ukraine’s audacious attack on some if its most important bomber bases.

US defence chief Pete Hegseth will seek on Thursday to drive home a deal on ramping up NATO defence spending that can satisfy ...

Sky News host Rita Panahi says recruitment numbers for the United States Army have “soared” since the November election ...