Hegseth orders Pentagon to launch comprehensive review into 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal

Hegseth to attend Asia defense summit, with no China meeting planned

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will travel to the Shangri-La Dialogue, the largest defense conference in Asia, where he will deliver a speech on the Pentagon’s approach to the region under the second Trump administration.While in Singapore, though, Hegseth is not expected to meet with his counterpart from China, as his predecessor Lloyd Austin did last year. Beijing normally sends its defense minister to the summit but is unlikely to thi…

Hegseth orders Pentagon review, investigation of disastrous Afghanistan pullout

by WorldTribune Staff, May 22, 2025 Real World News The Pentagon has launched a full investigation into Team Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. In a statement released on Tuesday, Hegseth announced: “On August 26, 2021, President Biden’s administration led a chaotic withdrawal of U.S. military and embassy officials from Afghanistan […]

Secretary of Defense Hegseth visits Fort Bragg as part of All American Week

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is traveling to Fort Bragg on Thursday to give remarks during the 82nd Airborne Division All American Week Review.

Hegseth orders review o f Afghan withdrawal

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that he had directed his chief spokesperson to convene a panel to review the U.S. military's chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.

To restore soldiers' trust, DoD must finally get to the bottom of catastrophic Afghanistan withdrawal * WorldNetDaily * by J.M. Phelps

People cling to a U.S. Air Force jet in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Aug. 16, 2021. Many have called then-President Joe Biden’s August 2021 troop withdrawal from Afghanistan the most humiliating, disastrous, expensive and spectacularly incompetent military event in American history. And most agree it’s way past time for a serious probe into what really happened and why. Thus, on May 20, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent a memorandum intended…

'Catastrophic' Afghanistan withdrawal review ordered by SECDEF Hegseth

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered Pentagon leaders on Tuesday to conduct a “comprehensive review” of the U.S. military’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 under former President Joe Biden’s administration. In a Tuesday memorandum sent to senior Pentagon leaders, Hegseth said, “On August 26, 2021, President Biden’s administration led a chaotic withdrawal of US military and embassy officials from Afghanistan that led to the de…