The D Brief: 10% fewer generals; ‘Conquer Gaza’; New ICBM expense; ‘Airpower trap’?; And a bit more.

Hegseth orders elimination of 10% of general, admiral jobs. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took the first step to turn his rhetoric about bloated senior military ranks into policy on Monday with a memo ordering the services to eliminate at least 20 percent of active-duty four-star general and flag officer billets, at least 20 percent of all general officer jobs in the National Guard, and another 10% of general and flag officer billets across the entire military, Defense One’s Meghann Myers