President Donald Trump The decision to release several high military leaders is the first step in helping the president to achieve his goal of the army more focused on lethality.
“It’s a brave move … You could even say it’s pretty aggressive,” Fox News Digital, William Ruger, President of the US Institute of Economic Research (Aier) and a former Trump candidate for Ambassador to Afghanistan. “There is a feeling that I realize this is not just a challenge for one or two people, but that it should be more pressure to change the direction that the pentagon goes … in terms of deadlyness, the Etos warrior.”
Ruger, who serves as an officer in the American Navy, was “a prominent advocate of ending the American participation in the war in Afghanistan,” the Aier profile said.
Comments come after Trump released the president of the joint chiefs of the staff, the CQ Brown Air Force General, as well as several other tops military officers Over the weekend, a list that also included the US Navy officer, ADM. Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead one of the military branches.
The US Air Force General CQ Brown was under President Biden as a chairman of the joint staff chiefs. Recently, he was rejected by President Trump from that role. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
The dramatic move allegedly caused a “reversal” in Pentagon, according to a Reuters report, while critics quickly ran into Trump’s decision.
“The release of uniform leaders as a type of political loyalty test or for reasons relating to diversity and gender that has nothing to do with performance, erodes the trust and professionalism that our service members require to achieve their missions,” the top Democrat in Senate Committee on Armed Forces, Senator Jack Reed, from Rhode Iceland, told Reuters, whose report called the release “unprecedented.”
But the Minister of Defense Pete Hegsetth He pushed himself against that characterization, claiming during the appearance in Fox News Sunday, which Trump deserves to choose his key counseling team for national security. “
“Nothing about this is unprecedented,” Hegsetth said, noting that there were “many presidents who made changes,” especially citing Franklin D. Roosevelt, George HW Bush and Barack Obamawho claimed to “release or fired hundreds of” military officials.
(“Nothing about it is unprecedented,” said Defense Minister Pete Hegsetth, noting that there were “many presidents who made changes,” especially citing Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Hw Bush and Barack Obama.)
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In the latest example, Obama made the decision to liberate the general of the army of David McKiernan as the commander of the US forces in Afghanistan Five months in the President’s term of office in 2009, marking the first time that the war commander had been dismissed since 1951.
According to Ruger, the main point of shooting will be allowed Trump to trust military advisers to execute their vision of the future of force.
“The president had a good reason to try this, believing that the army did not run admirals and generals who were needed to implement his vision of our defense structure,” Ruger said. “We should have caution here in thinking that there is something good.”
Ruger also noted that the moves are more closely aligned with Hegeto’s vision for the military, which he believes will “focus on the flightness and ethos of warriors, unlike some more … identitarism we saw crawling into the army.”
US Defense Minister Pete Hegseth spoke with the media during his visit to the headquarters of the US European Command and the African Command at the African Command at Kelly Barracs in Germany in Stuttgart on Tuesday, February 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
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Perhaps more importantly, Ruger emphasized that Trump’s ability to shake up military leadership while seeing appropriately critical for the American temporally tested tradition of civilian leadership.
“It is important that for good civilian military relations, it is clear who the decision maker is, and that should be civilians and that what they say will be true,” Ruger said. “It’s a sign of good civilian military relations.”
