WASHINGTON (Reuters) -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 ...

Members of the U.S. military have the legal right to refuse orders they believe are unlawful, but they risk violating ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo Monday ordering a sweeping cut of general and officer ranks across the armed forces to reduce “redundant” leadership. Hegseth directed the Department of ...

We've never been at this kind of crossroads in our country before," Kenneth Harbaugh, a U.S. Navy veteran, told Military.com ...

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 ...