The Pentagon is considering making significant cuts at the top of the US military as the Trump administration seeks to shrink the federal government, a classified document obtained by a US defense official and CNN has revealed.
Plans under consideration include consolidating combatant commands, possibly eliminating a directorate that oversees development, training and education for the joint force, and halting the expansion of US Forces Japan, A2 CNN reports.
The Pentagon is also considering merging European Command and Africa Command into a single command based in Stuttgart, Germany, and combining the U.S. Northern and Southern commands into a single AMERICOM command, according to the document obtained by CNN.
The document was prepared this month by US defense officials for senior leaders, as Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has pushed the Pentagon and other federal agencies to make sweeping cuts to save money, A2 CNN reports.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a video last month that the DoD would rely on DOGE to help the department "find fraud, waste and abuse in the largest discretionary budget in the federal government."
The current annual budget of the US military is over $800 billion. (A2 Televizion)