Fresh details are coming to light about defence secretary Pete Hegseth ’s surprise order requiring hundreds of US generals and admirals to assemble next week in Virginia, with senior officials now describing it as an attempt to showcase the administration’s reinvention of the Pentagon as the “department of war. ” The directive was issued earlier this week to all commanders ranked one-star general or rear admiral and above, along with their senior enlisted leaders. Exceptions will be granted only in rare cases with top-level approval. Staff across the globe have scrambled to arrange urgent travel, with many officers leaving posts in active conflict zones. “It’s meant to be an eyeball-to-eyeball kind of conversation,” one person familiar with the planning was quoted as saying by The

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