They ARE falling like flies…
Career US military Boses …
President Trump’s Defense Sec., who had a rough time getting the job…
Is now working to shape his department in his image….
In doing so?
He IS throwing out culture, institutional knowledge and worst of all?
Experience,,,
Hegseth’s ‘Warrior’ thing and other actions have generated grumbling, questions and worries inside the Pentagon and in Congress….
Bosses who surround themselves with ‘Yes Me’ tend to make mistakes and get in trouble….
We ARE talking about the United States Military on this….
Added to this IS what seems to be a President that wants to use America’s military to Flex across the America’s Foreign and Domestic land…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired or sidelined at least two dozen generals and admirals over the past nine months in a series of ousters that could reshape the U.S. military for years to come.
His actions, which are without precedent in recent decades, have come with little explanation. In many cases, they have run counter to the advice of top military leaders who fought alongside the officers in combat, senior military officials said.
The utter unpredictability of Mr. Hegseth’s moves, as described in interviews with 20 current and former military officials, has created an atmosphere of anxiety and mistrust that has forced senior officers to take sides and, at times, pitted them against one another.
Mr. Hegseth has delayed or canceled the promotions of at least four senior military officers because they previously worked for Gen. Mark A. Milley, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff whom President Trump loathes and has repeatedly accused of disloyalty. One is Maj. Gen. James Patrick Work, who was expected to be the deputy commander at U.S. Central Command, which oversees troops in the Middle East, officials said….
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Some leaders were ousted for offering candid military assessments. Mr. Hegseth soured on Adm. Alvin Holsey, the head of U.S. Southern Command, after he raised questions about deadly military strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea. The Trump administration has said, without offering detailed evidence, that the boats were trafficking drugs. Admiral Holsey abruptly announced last month that he was stepping down, less than one year into what is typically a three-year assignment.
Another senior officer, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey A. Kruse, a 35-year Air Force intelligence officer who led the Defense Intelligence Agency, was forced from his position after his agency cast doubt on Mr. Trump’s assertion that U.S. airstrikes in June had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program.
In his public appearances, Mr. Hegseth has stressed “unity” as a critical component of a lethal military. “Your strength is your shared purpose,” he told several hundred troops recently on a trip to Asia. “Your strength is the unity of our mission.”
But his actions have worked to undermine that critical asset, military officials said….
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A new administration has the right to choose military leaders it trusts, said Kori Schake, a defense specialist who served on the National Security Council in the administration of President George W. Bush. But she worried the Trump administration was “squandering an enormous amount of talent.”
The scale of the firings also has alarmed some in Congress, like Senator Elissa Slotkin, Democrat of Michigan, who previously served as a C.I.A. officer analyzing foreign militaries. She recently described Mr. Hegseth’s moves as a “purge.”
“The places where we’ve looked at these kinds of things are places like China,” she said. “I used to work on Iraq. They would do the same thing.”….
image….NY Times….
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