Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said he hadn't felt pressured to present a rosier assessment of the success of the U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. "I've never been pres

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, revealed that the military beat back Iran’s retaliatory strikes on America’s Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar with “a minimum force posture.” Having anticipated retaliation from Iran over President Trump’s weekend strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities,

After Hegseth used the press conference to lash out at the media that covered the leaked report from the Defense Intelligence Agency—which is part of the Defense Department, which Hegseth leads—Caine provided information about the crew and weapons involved in the Iran operation, dubbed “Midnight Hammer.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, offered on Thursday the Trump administration’s most detailed descriptions yet of the planning and execution of U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Air Force Gen. Dan Caine revealed what one of the pilots said to him after seeing the blast from the strike on the Iranian nuclear facility at Fordow.