Former Sec. of Defense Mark Esper writes in A Sacred Oath about talking the president out of a plan to punish U.S. Navy Adm. William McRaven and retired U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal Former ...

Esper, who is a CNN contributor, declined to comment. For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at CNN.com In this 2020 photo, Mark Esper testifies in the Hart Senate Office Building in ...

US Defense Secretary, Mark Esper standing alongside his South Korean counterpart in Bangkok said the decision is taken in an effort to bolster a stalled peace push with North Korea.

President Donald Trump announced Monday afternoon that he had fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. “Mark Esper has been terminated,” Trump tweeted. “I would like to thank him for his ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump has fired his defense secretary, Mark Esper, who has played a key role in assuaging Israeli concerns about the sale of stealth combat jets to the United ...

Esper’s relationship with Trump, which was strained ahead of his dismissal from the Pentagon in November 2020, grew contentious over Trump’s use of active-duty troops to quell protests across ...