About 20 Admirals and Generals Have Left Since Hegseth Took Over the Defence Department

Roughly 20 admirals and generals have either resigned or been fired since Pete Hegseth took over the US defence department, per BBC reporting. The figure bundles two different kinds of exit into a single number: officers who chose to leave and officers who were removed. Quoted on its own, it can read as evidence of a retention problem or of a deliberate reshaping, depending on which of those you take to dominate.