WASHINGTON — Mark T. Esper is a 1986 graduate of West Point, where his classmates included Mike Pompeo, now the secretary of state. He was an Army infantryman who fought in the gulf war.

WASHINGTON -- Dr. Mark T. Esper was confirmed by a vote in the Senate, 89-6, to become the 23rd secretary of the Army shortly after noon on Wednesday. Earlier in January, after Eric Fanning ...

Former Trump senior advisor Steve Bannon ripped in former Trump officials Mark Esper, Mike Pompeo ... call these former Trump officials the “West Point mafia” and raged they “should be ...

The Secretary of Defense Honorable Mark Esper ... and as far west as Thailand and India. Everywhere he went, those countries shared the same political values as the U.S. Esper added the allied ...

In selecting Army Secretary Mark Esper to succeed ... adviser John Bolton. Esper and Pompeo, both former Army officers, went through the U.S. Military Academy at West Point together, class of ...

Defense Secretary Mark Esper took the discretion-over-valor route Wednesday when asked who he'd be rooting for in the upcoming Army-Air Force football game. Unconvincingly, Esper, a West Point ...

Their West Point classmates Ulrich Brechbuhl and Brian ... Bulatao; Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark T. Esper. Bottom row: Congressman Mark Green; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; David Urban.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US Defense Secretary Mark Esper look on as they ... taught both Esper and Pompeo in his West Point social sciences class. However, it was Pompeo, the class ...

The last time President Donald Trump addressed Army cadets at West Point, he was locked in a dramatic conflict with America’s ...

Defense Secretary Mark Esper listens during a Cabinet meeting ... has been appointed acting defense secretary, Trump said. Esper, a West Point graduate and former Army lieutenant colonel, was ...

Today's guest is former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. His new book ... I swore my first oath at West Point in July 1982. It's just kind of in me to serve, and I figure if your nation calls ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump nominated Mark T. Esper, the secretary of the Army and former West Point classmate of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on Friday to be the next defense secretary.