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The United States military, like every institution, has become top heavy with useless people. We have a lot of Chiefs, not as many Indians, and the Chiefs don’t do very much except push their agendas and plan their future careers as defense industry lobbyists or consultants for foreign companies.
Introducing the “Less Generals More GIs Policy.” pic.twitter.com/bQLRL2MqSC
— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) May 5, 2025
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is doing something about it.
The memo, titled “General/Flag Officer Reductions,” called for an overall reduction of 20 percent of four-star flag and general officers in the active force and 10 percent in the flag and general officer corps, reads the memo. Additionally, the memo calls for a 20 percent reduction of general officers in the Army and Air National Guard.
“More generals and admirals does not equal more success. Now this is not a slash and burn exercise meant to punish high-ranking officers,” Hegseth said in a video posted on X. “This has been a deliberative process, working with the Joint Chiefs of Staff with one goal, maximizing strategic readiness and operational effectiveness by making prudent reductions in the general and flag officer ranks.”
In the video message, Hegseth outlined two phases of the effort that he called “less generals, more G.I.s.” The first is a look at the current structure of the military services and the second is an evaluation of the Unified Command Plan.
“Phase two will produce a minimum of an additional 10 percent reduction of overall general and flag officers throughout the DoD in conjunction with a realignment of the Unified Command Plan.”
Expect a judge to step in however and declare that she knows better than the Secretary of Defense and that changes to the number of four star generals violates the Administrative Procedures Act.
Hegseth has flaws.
But no retired general would cut back the number of generals in the top heavy DoD.
Fact
I had a boss like that. Her department was way overboard top-heavy. She was a supremely insecure even at times paranoid micromanager. I think if she could have hired two supervisors for every rank and file employee and then a supervisor to supervise every supervisor she would have done it.
The more supervisors she had the more important she thought she was and the more micromanaging she could do. And she could hide her incompetence by blaming one of her supervisors for her mistakes.
Pete Hegseth is the first Secretary of Defense I’ve seen who actually does anything and makes improvements in the military. So of course the D-Bags hate him. The last guy was a complete piece of DEI garbage. I think the fact that he’s handsome (like me) is the main reason the resentful D-Bags hate him so much more than any other Cabinet member. I notice D-Bags hate good looking conservatives more than average looking ones.
Even Douglas MacGregor, who can be a bit of a mixed bag, has noted that when Eisenhower ran things there were 3 or 4 four-star Generals. Now there are more than 40. Seems rather bloated, and ripe for SNAFU.
I’ve read that the ideal officer to enlisted ratio is no more than five percent officer. The senior NCO staff is also top heavy.
We’ve a long way to go