Obama fired high -level military leaders, now Trump and Hegsetth were supposed to do the same

Rumors turned to this week that the secretary Pete Hegsetth Preparation of a list of upper brass pentagon for a chopped block, but it is not the first time the administration has cleaned top military commanders to align with new political goals.
Five months to duty in 2009, President Barack Obama faded General of Military David McKiernan as commander of the US forces in Afghanistan – Making McKiernan to the first commander of the war, rejected by General Douglas Macarthhur in 1951.
It was replaced by General Stanley Mcchrystal, who conducted the forces of special operations in Iraq, at the advice of Defense Minister Robert Gates, who wanted “fresh eyes” in a drawn conflict in Afghanistan.
“We have a new strategy, a new mission and a new ambassador. I believe a new military leadership is also needed,” Gates said at a press conference.
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Obama replaced General Stanley Mcchrystal with David Petraeus, right, in Afghanistan. (Reuters/Larry Downing)
For days before he was invited to meet Obama about work, Mcchrystal gave a speech in London on the need for military accumulation in Afghanistan. Shortly thereafter, Obama approved a schedule of 33,000 soldiers to Afghanistan.
Just a year in his command, McChrystal resigned, and Obama kicked him out after he was allegedly badly white house officials and was replaced by General David Petraeus.
Obama also fired General James Mattis as the head of the US Central Command – and Trump once abolished that “the only thing” he and Obama had in common It was “the honor of release Jim Mattis.”
Obama and Mattis fell out of withdrawal from Iraq. “The Central Command, President of the Common Chiefs and the New Defense Minister, Leon Panett, who replaced Bob Gates, continued to recommend the White House, retaining a lagged force, as well as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,” Mattis wrote in his book “The Call for Chaos.”
Obama, who promised to “finish the job” in Afghanistan after withdrawing troops from Iraq in 2011, rose as many as 100,000 soldiers to Afghanistan and then pulled them out of a quick fire pace that many in the army advised, ending up with its terms in 2017 with 8,400 American troops on the ground. The end of the war also avoided the subsequent Trump administration, which set the deadline for removal that fell under the next Biden administration and resulted in a messy withdrawal in August 2021 and the death of 13 American troops.
But Obama’s Presidency interfered with the reports of Razda between the White House and the Army.
One general, after returning from Afghanistan, allegedly said that he felt that Obamina was a white house wanted an army be “seen and not heard.”
In his memoir “Duty”, Gates blamed then President Vice Joe Biden, who pushed himself against the initial rise in Afghanistan, for Obama’s bad relationship with the army.
Trump gave up that the “only thing” he had in common with Obama released Jim Mattis. (Reuters/Yuri Gripas)
“I thought Biden subjected Obama to the Chinese torture of water, every day speaking” the army cannot be trusted, “he wrote.
In 2012, the Navy removed and replaced the rear adm. Charles M. Gaouette as commander of the strike group for transportation of aircraft deployed in the Middle East for charges of inappropriate ruling on the leadership. The Navy Inspector later revealed that Gaouette Ue -Mailovi had given racially insensitive remarks. The Navy denied the claims that Gaouette had been discharged for assistance during the attack in Bengasia without a warrant.
In October 2013, the Air Force fired a two -star general in charge of 450 nuclear rockets, Michael Carey, for “losing confidence and trust in his leadership and judgment”. On the same week, Obama fired the Nuclear Commander of the number two, Vice ADM. The Giardin team, from the US Strategic Command after being involved in a criminal investigation into the use of counterfeit gambled chips in poker games in Wesow Iowa Casino.
Former Trump National Security Advisor and Retired Three Star Lieutenant Michael Flynn speaks during the American 2024 Conference 2024, sponsored on December 20, 2024, a conservative group Turning Point in Phoenix in Arizona, Reuters/Cheney Orr
In 2014, Obama dismissed the military General Michael Flynn as the head of the Intelligence Defense Agency for “disobedience”, which Flynn claimed to have come from criticism he did that Obama was not firm enough in Islamic extremism.
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Obamines moves to overthrow the armed forces and invent social policies for the protection of minority groups have proven to be controversial among military brass. Critics argued that his sudden moves of the units in Iraq and Afghanistan allowed Isis to get the country, while supporters painted him as a Nobel Peace Prize winner that began the US Variance from the Middle East to Indo-Pacific.
Rumors like Wildfire on Thursday revolved around Washington about the “list” of the name Hegsetth reportedly circulated among the leaders of General and Admiral Congress he planned to release. But members and staff of the Committee on Armed Forces of Home and Senate did not see such a list.