All posts tagged "Chuck Hagel"

On This Week with George Stephanopoulos this morning, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel told Martha Raddatz that he would like to see the current ban on transgender individuals in the United States military "reviewed."

QINGDAO, China (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel visited China's sole aircraft carrier on Monday in an unprecedented opening by normally secretive Beijing to a potent symbol of its military buildup.

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Monday he hoped an accord on the future US military presence in Afghanistan would be in place by November, despite President Hamid Karzai's refusal to be rushed.

Watch as Secretary of State John F. Kerry, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and General Martin E. Dempsey (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs) testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in an unclassified hearing about the Congressional authorization for the use of force in Syira.

By Peter Sleeth, Special to ProPublica