By Helene Cooper National security reporter Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a 20 percent reduction of four-star officers — the military’s senior ranks — continuing the wide swath of ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo Monday ordering a sweeping cut of general and officer ranks across the armed ... its active component four-star military officers and general officers ...

Hegseth has long been vocal about how he views the senior-most ranks of the military as too big. The former Fox News host has moved with stunning speed to reshape the department, firing top ...

which could include any one-star or above or officer of equivalent Navy rank.The cuts are on top of more than a half-dozen top general officers that President Donald Trump or Hegseth have fired ...

The memo also called for an “additional minimum 10% reduction in general and flag officers” across the military. Four-star general or admiral is the highest rank a military officer can achieve ...

Hegseth has long been vocal about how the senior-most ranks of the military are too big. At his confirmation hearing, he stated there was “an inverse relationship between the size of staffs and ...

which could include any one-star or above or officer of equivalent Navy rank. The cuts are on top of more than a half-dozen top general officers that President Donald Trump or Hegseth have fired since ...

which could include any one-star or above or equivalent Navy rank. Hegseth said the cuts aimed to free the military from “unnecessary bureaucratic layers.” The news of the cuts was first reported by ...