defense secretary
Military cabinet member
The defense secretary is the head of a country's military department, responsible for overseeing armed forces and advising the head of government on military matters.
In the United States, the Secretary of Defense leads the Department of Defense and serves in the president's cabinet: The defense secretary briefed Congress on troop deployments.
Other countries use similar titles for equivalent positions.
- pentagonFive-sided closed figure
- war roomStrategic planning headquarters
- militaryArmed forces collectively
- cabinetEnclosed storage furniture
- warfareArmed conflict between groups
commander · troops · boots on the ground · troop surge · briefing · missiles · homeland · national security · armed forces · diplomacy · intelligence · chain of command · strategy · hawkish · classified · classified briefing · press briefing · deployment
- Military Affairsmilitary, War Department, military policy, military budget, military branches
- U.S. MilitaryArmy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, Pentagon
- executive branchexecutive branch, Oval Office, executive power, executive orders, executive order
- Federal JobsFBI agent, CIA agent, DEA agent, ATF agent, TSA agent
- presidencyOval Office, president, Washington, executive branch, veto
- appointeesappointee, nominee, designee, ambassador, federal judge
defense secretarysecretary of state
Top diplomat in cabinet
foreign minister · health secretary · treasury secretary · education secretary · commerce secretary
defense secretarygeneral
Widespread, not specialized
chief of staff · commanding general · field marshal · admiral · military commander
defense secretaryambassador
Official foreign representative
peace envoy · secretary of state · chief diplomat · foreign minister · diplomat
defense, secretary, defence, defend, defender, defenders, defenses, defences, defensive