President Donald Trump is proposing using American cities as training grounds for the armed forces. He's suggesting U.S. military might be deployed against what he describes as the “invasion from within.

Senior officers, summoned from around the world, are entrusted to manage complex military operations. They got a lecture on fitness and grooming standards.

Earlier, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the purpose of the department would exclusively be "war fighting."

After listing the proposed changes, Hegseth gave the assembled officers a warning: “If the words I’m speaking today are making your hearts sink, then you should do the honorable thing and resign.” If the commanders wanted to better understand what he was saying, he jokingly told them, they could pick up a copy of his book.

Before a captive audience of hundreds of senior military officers on Tuesday morning, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asserted his vision for how the US military will physically look and act, and offered a stark conclusion: If you don’t agree,

From where I sit, you don’t win trust by lecturing warfighters; until Pete Hegseth owns his gaps, listens hard, and speaks candidly with the President and the flag officers, he’ll keep driving the people he must persuade into polite,

As U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders military brass from all around the world to meet with him for unstated reasons, he may be facing a form of military uprising, according to an independent political strategist who worked on former President George W.

The speech that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will give to hundreds of generals and admirals next week will be about the "warrior ethos" of the military, sources say.