Fast-forward to December 2018 when President Donald Trump nominated Gen. Mark Milley for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCOS), against the wishes of Secretary of Defense and former Marine Gen.

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.

and has floated the idea that Milley should be executed for actions he took as chairman. (This idea came to him shortly after the publication of this magazine’s profile of Milley, by editor in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...

Mark Milley, who was set to retire as chairman. Brown was confirmed by a vote of 89-8 in September 2023. He spent much of his time on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, helping to determine ...

Recent actions taken against the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley are more than punitive measures taken against a single officer. The retribution moves dangerously ...

As the end of the first month of President Donald Trump’s second term approached, the New York Times sounded an alarm: He has ...

Milley. Days after Mr. Floyd’s death ... will get a portrait of his one year and four months as the Joint Chiefs chairman. Mr. Trump has not publicly criticized General Brown, whom he is ...

Mark Milley, who was set to retire as chairman. Brown’s path to the chairmanship was troubled — he was among the more than 260 senior military officers whose nominations were stalled for ...

N.J., said Sunday that President Donald Trump’s firing of Gen. CQ Brown Jr. from his role as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sends “a dangerous message to the military” on political loyalty to ...

Five former secretaries of defense criticize President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a letter to Congress.