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

President DONALD TRUMP and Defense Secretary PETE HEGSETH have promised a $1 trillion defense budget. Their budget doesn’t ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday ordered a 20% reduction in the number of military generals and flag officers, arguing that the policy will bolster “strategic readiness and operational ...

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

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced he has directed the Defense Department to cut at least 20% of its four-star generals ...

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

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

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo Monday ordering a sweeping cut of general and officer ranks across the armed ...

US-Mexico border in New Mexico. The area, now under control of the Department of Defense, is being treated as part of a U.S.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants the number of active-duty four-star generals and admirals in the U.S. military to be cut ...

The Pentagon’s purge of DEI personnel began in 2024, following a provision in the defense policy bill that required changes to the department’s DEI workforce.