The Trump administration has overseen another significant shake-up in the US defense and intelligence community. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has dismissed Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse , the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), along with two other senior officers — Vice Adm. Nancy Lacore , chief of the Navy Reserve, and Rear Adm. Milton ‘Jamie’ Sands III , commander of Naval Special Warfare Command.

The Pentagon did not provide reasons for their removals.

Kruse’s removal follows the release of an initial intelligence assessment produced by the DIA after US airstrikes in June targeted Iranian nuclear sites. That assessment concluded Iran’s program had been delayed only a few months, a finding that contradicted President Donald Trump’s public claim that the facilities were “co

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