Senior Pentagon officials have until April 11 to submit new proposals to cut, consolidate and restructure the Defense Department, including U.S. combatant commands, according to a new memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. DOD announced the new "Initiating the Workforce Acceleration and Recapitalization Initiative” memo on Saturday while Hegseth was returning from Asia, releasing a video of him signing it while aboard an aircraft. “It’s an important new opportunity to right-size DOD,” he said in the video. Though the memo...
