Hegseth Is Targeting the Military’s ‘Constitution’

There have been recent reports that the US Department of Defense, under Secretary Pete Hegseth, is planning significant revisions to its Unified Command Plan (UCP). This document lays out the US military's global command structure and defines the missions and geographic areas of responsibility of the most senior four-star commanders.

This may seem like an obscure, bureaucratic issue to most Americans, but it is not. The UCP is as close as the US military has to a constitution, and any plan to alter it must not only improve our warfighting ability, but also respect the most important aspect of our national defense: that the military is under civilian control.