Top military officials said they were alarmed after the defense secretary demanded an all-hands meeting
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has issued urgent orders for 800 generals and admirals in the U.S. military worldwide to a meeting at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, on short notice and without a stated reason, The first reported.
According to sources familiar with the matter, the orders were issued earlier this week and have caused alarm and confusion among the nation’s top brass. The orders, highly unusual in their own right, come in the midst of a looming government shutdown and on the heels of the Trump administration attempting to rename the Department of Defense the “Department of War.”
Pentagon spokesman and senior Hegseth adviser, Sean Parnell, said in a statement released Thursday that Hegseth “will be addressing his senior military leaders early next week,” but offered no further details.
