Hegseth said he wanted to "streamline leadership by reducing excess general and flag officer positions."

Pete Hegseth thinks we're at a point where long-range drones and hypersonics are changing and contesting battle spaces differently from the assumptions we had.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday ordered a 20% reduction in the number of four-star officers, deepening ongoing cuts at the Pentagon that have shaken the Department of Defense at the start of President Donald Trump's second term in office.