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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Six days before the Iran strike window opens, Hegseth fired the general in charge of planning it
The Pentagon's chief planner on the Joint Staff, a three-star who commanded the 101st Airborne and carries six Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart, was pushed out this week with no explanation and no replacement named, the second man forced out of that job in a year.
Officials told The Atlantic Hegseth lost confidence in him and he didn't get on with policy chief Elbridge Colby.
He's at least the fifth general removed this year and one of 26 generals and admirals gone since Hegseth arrived, after the Army chief of staff was fired at the height of the spring strikes while his service was supposed to be restocking the interceptors now in short supply.
One more detail: X users noticed that the general's son, a FEMA analyst, had written something offensive after Charlie Kirk's killing, named the father, and told Hegseth to "review" his employment.
The son was put on leave then; the father is out now. Whatever the reason, the job he held is the link between CENTCOM's strike options, Pentagon policy and the White House, and it's empty the week Trump decides between a deal and a week of bombing.
Source: The Atlantic
#worldnews
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Six days before the Iran strike window opens, Hegseth fired the general in charge of planning it
The Pentagon's chief planner on the Joint Staff, a three-star who commanded the 101st Airborne and carries six Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart, was pushed out this week with no explanation and no replacement named, the second man forced out of that job in a year.
Officials told The Atlantic Hegseth lost confidence in him and he didn't get on with policy chief Elbridge Colby.
He's at least the fifth general removed this year and one of 26 generals and admirals gone since Hegseth arrived, after the Army chief of staff was fired at the height of the spring strikes while his service was supposed to be restocking the interceptors now in short supply.
One more detail: X users noticed that the general's son, a FEMA analyst, had written something offensive after Charlie Kirk's killing, named the father, and told Hegseth to "review" his employment.
The son was put on leave then; the father is out now. Whatever the reason, the job he held is the link between CENTCOM's strike options, Pentagon policy and the White House, and it's empty the week Trump decides between a deal and a week of bombing.
Source: The Atlantic
#worldnews
