U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday ordered a 20% reduction in the number of four-star officers, deepening cuts at ...

Hegseth’s directive, characterized as an effort to rein in a bloated bureaucracy, follows a purge of top military leaders soon after Trump returned to office.

In a memo released Monday, Hegseth argued that senior leaders should be "unencumbered by unnecessary bureaucratic layers that ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has already fired a raft of military leaders, many of them women and people of color, ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered military planners to cut the number of four-star generals and admirals in the ...

The move comes as the Trump administration has been pushing for widespread personnel reductions and realignments across the ...

In addition to the reductions at the four-star level, Hegseth also called for a 10 percent cut among general and flag ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the active duty military to shed 20% of its four-star general officers as the Trump ...