Hegseth Orders Sweeping Army Overhaul And Consolidation Aimed At Countering China And Golden Dome Capabilities

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth connected Wednesday ordered a top-down translator of nan Army successful a sweeping directive aimed astatine reorienting nan work toward awesome powerfulness competition.

With a crisp attraction connected countering China, processing abstraction and counter-space capabilities, and accelerating nan Pentagon’s caller Golden Dome strategy, nan fierce modernization effort directs nan Army to trim aging bequest systems, restructure office commands and much quickly section caller technologies. 

The memo ordered a merging of Army Futures Command, based successful Austin, Texas, pinch Training and Doctrine Command, headquartered in Fort Eustis, Virginia, and merging Forces Command, U.S. Army North and U.S. Army South. 

"To build a leaner, much lethal force, nan Army must toggle shape astatine an accelerated gait by divesting outdated, redundant, and inefficient programs, arsenic good arsenic restructuring office and acquisition systems," Hegseth wrote. 

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth connected Wednesday ordered a top-down translator of nan Army successful a sweeping directive. (Reuters/Yves Herman)

"Simultaneously, nan Army must prioritize investments successful accordance pinch nan Administration’s strategy, ensuring existing resources are prioritized to amended long-range precision fires, aerial and rocket defense including done nan Golden Dome for America, cyber, physics warfare, and counter-space capabilities."

Hegseth wants nan Army to beryllium capable to section long-range missiles tin of striking moving onshore and oversea targets and execute electromagnetic and air-littoral power by 2027 arsenic nan imaginable for conflict looms successful nan Indo-Pacific theater. 

The memo calls for reducing parented onslaught chopper formations successful favour of inexpensive drone swarms and nan simplification of wide serviceman positions to attraction bid structures connected nan warfighter. 

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The procurement of obsolete systems will beryllium ended, per nan memo, and "redundant aliases ineffective" programs will beryllium canceled aliases scaled back, including parented craft and excess crushed vehicles for illustration nan Humvee. (Credit: U.S. Army)

Hegseth ordered the Army to alteration AI-driven bid and power astatine theater, corps and section office by 2027 and grow 3D printing for weapons. 

The memo besides calls for bulking up nan Army’s beingness successful nan Indo-Pacific and much associated exercises pinch friends successful nan region. 

The procurement of obsolete systems will beryllium ended, per nan memo, and "redundant aliases ineffective" programs will beryllium canceled aliases scaled back, including parented craft and excess crushed vehicles for illustration nan Humvee. 

The memo calls for reducing parented onslaught chopper formations successful favour of inexpensive drone swarms and nan simplification of wide serviceman positions to attraction bid structures connected nan warfighter. (Daniel Ceng/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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The Army will reappraisal and cancel inefficient contracts and activity to displacement from program-centric backing to capability-based funding, and adhd correct to repair provisions successful each contracts, arsenic good arsenic instrumentality performance-based contracting to trim waste. 

The defense caput besides calls for reforms to hiring and firing systems, and reduced spending connected ambiance initiatives, bequest sustainment initiatives and excess travel.