The military may be top-heavy. Don't make things worse with hasty cuts.

News broke Tuesday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to order the elimination of one-fifth of the U.S. military’s general and flag billets. There is a legitimate case for examining whether the Armed Forces have have become too top-heavy. There is also a legitimate reason to be concerned about how reductions in the senior officer corps are carried out. For more than 20 years, I worked as a federal contractor operating mission-critical facilities supporting the Defense Dep