Who is Daniel ‘Level’ Caine? Air Force General eavesdropped on the top role of an advisor in the Pentagon quarrel
Trump’s administration on Friday night in Pentagon saw the cracking of six high officers as a secretary Pete Hegsetth They did good in promises to increase the leadership of the agency.
President Donald Trump And Hegsetth dismissed the president of the joint heads of the headquarters, General CQ Brown, and replaced him with a relatively unknown figure in the complete General Dan Caine.
The election of Cainea shows the president’s preference for irregular wars and special operations: Caine was among a group of military leaders who met with the President in December 2018 at the Al Assad Air Base in Iraq. Trump was there to deliver a Christmas message and heard from the commander on the field, and there he told Trump there that he could quickly beat Isis with a rush of resources and the abolition of the engagement limit.
“” We just hit them out of a temporary base in Syria, “Trump Caine told him told him.” sir.
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The Lieutenant of the “Rasin” Cainea Air Force nominated Trump on Friday for the next president of the joint staff chief. (US Air Force)
“It was a different message from [Trump] He received from leadership in Pentagon, and I think it really made the impression, “according to Rob Greenway, a former official of the National Security Council who was on a trip and knew Caine since graduating from the Virginia Military Institute.
Trump chose Caine on Friday, praised him as “a successful pilot, a national security expert, a successful entrepreneur and a” warrior “with significant inter -itionic and special experience.”
Retired general general of relative ambiguity to serve as his senior military advisor after accusing his predecessor, CQ brown from pushing the agenda “awakened” in Pentagon. Brown was behind the Memorandum in 2022, setting the goals of the aviation diversity.
Caine does not fulfill the prerequisites of the position, such as the combat commander or chief of the service, and will require renunciation to confirm to this position.
However, the choice leaves Pentagon’s observers curious in which direction Caine will go in their new high -level post.
“Caine didn’t write much. We somehow try to read the tea leaves here,” said Mark Cancian, a senior defense advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Greenway called Caine “absolutely inspired by choosing, a huge officer with an extraordinary background, and he trusts the president.”
Trump undoubtedly attracted his reputation of an aggressive pilot of a fighter who earned him the nickname “Razin” Caine. But Caine’s non -traditional path through the military ranks and the business world was certainly the point of sale, according to Greenway.
“The priority of the president is that the Pentagon is a audit, that he has someone who knows what the balance sheet looks like and hope that we hope to help the department to reach the right.”
Pentagon did not betray seven direct audits, and the Department for the Efficiency of the Government (Doge) set its budget to reduce the budget on the DOD.
Trump released General CQ on Friday as a chairman of the common chiefs. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
Caine, Pilot F-16 per background, spent time as the main military connection of the CIA, the officer of the air Guard and the founder of the Regional Avio-Company in Texas. He was an associate of the White House at the Department of Agriculture and Expert of the Anti -Terrorism at the White House Home Council.
From 2018 to 19, he was Deputy Commander of the Common Working Group for Special Operations-Operations inherent Resolu, who has been fighting the Islamic State since 2014, although he is little publicly known about his role in the operation. The role of air attacks, however, grew at that time, including secrets, and Trump determined the approval of the air attack, not the White House to the commanders.
But critics say that Caine, like Hegsetth, does not have a command experience for the role of Trump’s chief military advisor.
“Trump sees [the role] As someone who has the ability to start strength and directing funding, which simply does not work that way. It’s not a role. So now you have a president who has people around you who are his main advisers, [Hegseth] And this new president, who really had limited qualifications at a higher level, “said Gene Moran, a former advisor to the president of the joint chiefs and the founder of the Lobbying company Capitol Integration.
The administration also liberated ADM. Lisa Franchetti, head of maritime operations – which Hegsetth believed was got a job because she was a woman – General Jim Slife, Vice President of the Air Force, and a judge of the army advocates of the army, the Navy, the Navy and the Air Force.
“If the navy surgery suffers, we can at least hold our heads high. Because at least first we have another one! The first female member of the joint staff chiefs – Hooray,” Hegsetth wrote in his book 2024. ”
“The Navy, in particular, was not able to complete the procurement program on time, and the budget and notoriously released more ships than it was made,” Greenway said. “So, I think the message existed, the responsibility must be restored.”
Hegsetth was a critic of Brown and Franchetti. (Reuters/Yves Herman)
The transfer of the Judge General Proponent could be the biggest signal of a policy change, where Hegsetth demanded that he approve greater powers on the field without worrying about legal limitations.
The judge advocates the general, the chief uniforms of the army, aviation and navy lawyers, supervise legal advisers for each branch and veterans and prosecutors for the courts.
Hegsetth spoke against what he saw as an “obsessive” prosecution of war crimes. “He wants to benefit the warrior, if not, you know, an absolute massacre,” said one source familiar with the thought of the Minister of Defense.
“Ultimately, we want lawyers who give sound constitutional advice and do not exist to try to be blocking the way for anything that happens,” Pentagon head for Fox News on Sunday.
“Hegsetth said the troops should do what they needed to win, and lawyers do not feel limited,” Cancian said. “But then you could have some actions that are contrary to international law or contracts, which could make a huge controversy, both in the country to our allies.”
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But Cainea’s progress, with his concealed operations, and removal of the best lawyers would signal a new focus on the concealed operations – pressure that would match the new terrorism tags for cartel in Latin America – and could set up an army for the disguised counter -articles borders.
“We were definitely able to see the change in the hull states in some of these regions in which we were too long, and the new missions in Mexico go for cartels,” said the second Hegsetth Ally.
