Hegseth vows to shrink the Pentagon — and then announces plans to grow it
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday pulled together hundreds of troops to lay out cuts to the Pentagon’s bureaucracy — and ended up announcing major plans to add to it. At first, the Pentagon chief’s “State of the Force” speech at the…
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Published3 h ago (Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:09:18 GMT)
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AuthorJack Detsch, Paul McLeary