https://flipnews.co.uk/topics/pete-hegseth/ The latest Flip News stories on pete-hegseth. en-GB Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:23:26 GMT https://flipnews.co.uk/politics/hegseth-troops-day-off-vote-midterms/ https://flipnews.co.uk/politics/hegseth-troops-day-off-vote-midterms/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a one-day military-wide stand down so US service members can vote in November's midterm elections, announcing the move in an October 2 video and formalising it in an October 1 memo that makes the day off a recurring feature of every election year. James Calloway us-midterms pete-hegseth military-voting USA Today https://flipnews.co.uk/technology/musk-pentagon-project-meridian-future-warfare/ https://flipnews.co.uk/technology/musk-pentagon-project-meridian-future-warfare/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pete Hegseth has tapped Elon Musk, Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and former House speaker Newt Gingrich to co-lead Project Meridian, a 120-day Pentagon study of the battlefields of the future. Tom Ellery elon-musk project-meridian pentagon pete-hegseth palmer-luckey TechCrunch, Al Arabiya English