Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Orders Urgent Meeting Of Armed Forces Top Brass

Articles | September 25, 2025 | by Catholics for Catholics

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That includes U.S. generals and admirals. No word on what they will talk about.

By Catholics for Catholics

An unprecedented meeting which will include about 800 of the U.S. armed forces’ top brass from around the world are scheduled to meet in northern Virginia on Sept. 30, after receiving orders from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The one of its kind meeting of America’s defense senior leaders often takes months in advance to be planned.

“The secretary of war will be addressing his senior military leaders early next week,” Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell said. The Pentagon refused to reveal the reason for the meeting, which will happen at Quantico, a Marine Corps base around 30 miles south of the Pentagon.

Sent earlier this week, the order requires practically all top commanders in the world — those at the rank of brigadier general or higher, or their Navy counterpart, along with their senior enlisted advisers — to go to the meeting at Marine Corps Base Quantico next Tuesday, according to Newsmax.

The order includes the top brass stationed in Europe, the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific area and conflict zones. The directive does not apply to officers in staff roles.

Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s spokesman, confirmed that Hegseth “will be addressing his senior military leaders early next week” but did not provide further details, according to the report.

“People are very concerned,” a source told the Washington Post. “They have no idea what it means.”

The order for general and flag officers (GOFOs) to congregate is as unprecedented as it is startling, another source told the Post.

“You don’t call GOFOs leading their people and the global force into an auditorium outside D.C. and not tell them why,” the source said.

President Donald Trump urged NATO this week to take a more assertive role in Ukraine’s defense by using weapons to push back Russian advances directly on the front lines. He suggested that the U.S. would provide arms to NATO members — who would then deploy them to Ukraine — rather than shipping them directly from U.S. stockpiles.

This shift marks a departure from his prior posture of limited direct intervention, and reflects a broader recalibration of U.S. involvement in the war.