He also called for a further reduction in general and flag officers by at least 10%."More generals and admirals does not equal more success. Now, this is not a slash-and-burn exercise meant to punish high-ranking officers.

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 cuts at the Pentagon that have shaken the Department of Defense at the start of President Donald Trump's second term in office.