Peter Bergen: “Trump desires to remake the Pentagon, so he has complete management over it. After all, he’s the Commander in Chief so it’s his prerogative to take action, however by firing Brown who’s Black and Franchetti who was the primary lady to run the Navy, Trump signaled that unquestioned loyalty would be the key qualification for these jobs somewhat than offering the most effective army recommendation to the president regardless of American home politics, which is supposed to be the important thing perform of the roles…”
“The scar tissue from Trump’s previous fights with Pentagon leaders has resulted in Trump’s intention to take complete management over the Division of Protection. We noticed a touch of that within the last months of his first time period when Trump put in an ultra-loyalist, Kash Patel, to the highly effective job of chief of workers on the Pentagon. Patel was not too long ago voted in by the Senate to change into the brand new director of the FBI.”
“Trump expects nothing lower than Patel-levels of loyalty in his generals and prime officers on the Pentagon. And Friday evening’s purge of six senior army officers is prone to be simply the aperitif since Hegseth is now in search of tens of billions of {dollars} of cuts at his division and he’ll probably should lose vital numbers of personnel.”
