Reduce the number of generals and admirals
What the document says“Reduce the number of generals. Rank creep is pervasive.”
The chapter states that the number of senior officers is at an all-time high, above World War II levels, while their battlefield experience is at an all-time low, and says the next President should limit the continued advancement of many of the existing senior officers, whom it says were advanced by prior Administrations for reasons other than warfighting ability.
What the document actually says“Reduce the number of generals. Rank creep is pervasive.”
Cut the number of generals. There are far too many now.
Generals are the top officers. The book says there are more of them than ever. It says there are more now than in World War II. It wants that number cut.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing among the candidates reduces the number of general and flag officers. The nearest, Public Law 119-80, waives a 60 day notice requirement so that one Army captain can be promoted posthumously and honorarily. It concerns a single case and does not touch the size of the senior officer corps or the advancement of serving officers. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.