Pentagon officials have discussed firing the longtime publisher of Stars and Stripes before his scheduled retirement, as the Trump administration strategizes an overhaul of the military news outlet partly funded by American taxpayers.

Longtime Stars and Stripes publisher Max D. Lederer Jr. has announced his retirement. The development comes as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon seeks to exert editorial…

The publisher’s departure comes seven months after the Pentagon announced on social media that it intended to overhaul the newspaper to align with department messaging