Caine is a career fighter jet pilot who defended Washington, D.C., during the 9/11 attacks and been adored by Trump since ...

The highest-ranking military officer in the country, the chairman has no direct command authority. His role is as a ...

The general made an impression in 2018 when he said, according to the president, that the Islamic State could be defeated in ...

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.

The Navy’s top admiral and a senior Air Force general also were dismissed as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moves to align ...

Trump said Friday night that Caine was his pick as the next Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, making the announcement in the ...

Pete Hegseth, secretary of defense and a 2025 Wash100 Award winner, has announced the intention of President Donald Trump to ...

Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was startling ... He selected Caine, a general whom Trump said told him the Islamic State group could be “totally finished in one week.” ...

No, President Donald Trump likely has little need for a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ... a two-star deputy commander fighting the Islamic State group. Trump recounted the story in ...