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Pete Hegseth has become very good at firing generals. He is far less adept at replacing them. He fired the Army's chief in a 15-second phone call & forced out at least three officers who might have succeeded him. There is a vacuum of command at the Pentagon. Hegseth is at the source. (Link below)

A lot of the changes by the DUI hire seem performative and not really designed to strengthen the military, but the perception is that he is making the military better by these cosmetic changes.

Hegseth, like RFK Jr., Todd Blanche, Kash Patel, Markwayne Mullins, Marco Rubio, the rest of the cabinet, and of course Trump, is doing untold long-term damage to our institutions and our country.

He never graduated a command,staff, or war college. He even lacks enough understanding to realize how far in over his head he is. Incompetent leaders often focus on distractions as a substitute for legitimacy; hence the focus on buzzwords like 'lethality' and 'testosterone'

A big reason the Russians got crushed at the start of WW 2 was that Stalin had purged the "non-loyal" generals & officers. "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana The Pete Hegseth version: "Those who do not learn history are dumbasses who repeat it."