Pete Hegseth continues to cut the Pentagon’s staff, The Washington Post writes. Fox News previously reported on the secretary of war’s plan to further reduce the number of senior military commanders.

Former senior officials of the War Department, Democrats in Congress, and some Republican colleagues are alarmed by the “leadership purge” and attempts to impose structural changes, the newspaper writes.

The armed forces have approximately 850 generals, accounting for less than 1% of the total personnel.

More than two dozen senior officers have been fired or removed from their positions under Hegseth, often without public explanations. On August 8, the Pentagon prematurely removed Lieutenant General Charles Costanza from his post.

On September 1, it became known that U.S. Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll had officially resigned. In recent months, he had had strained relations with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

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