Pete Hegseth Should Fire a Lot of High Ranking Military Officers \ stacker news ~Politics_And

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers wants answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth amid reports that President Donald Trump’s administration is gearing up to dismiss high-ranking military officers.

“There are valid reasons to remove a General or Flag Officer, but there must be clear, transparent, and apolitical criteria and processes associated with any such dismissal,” Reps. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), Don Bacon (R-Neb.), Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), Jason Crow (D-Colo.), Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) and Jared Golden (D-Maine) wrote in their letter to Hegseth. “An apolitical military is an essential component of our democracy and our national security,” they added.

The idea that high ranking military officers are “apolitical” is as absurd as the claim that the US Supreme Court is apolitical, or that the Federal Reserve System is apolitical. Only children (or people with the critical thinking skills of children) believe such fairy tales. I suspect that most in government who repeat the “apolitical” claim know the truth, but are cynically repeating the lie for political purposes.

The Trump administration’s instincts are correct if it suspects that the ranks of the generals are filled with de facto politicians primarily concerned with themselves and their political agendas. Back in 2021, I wrote an article on this topic titled “Military Generals Are Just Another Group of Self-Interested Technocrats:”

The whole article being quoted is at: https://mises.org/mises-wire/military-generals-are-just-another-group-self-interested-technocrats McMaken calls a politician a politician no matter where he finds them, in this case wearing stars on their shoulders. Getting rid of the politicians should be the highest priority for the new secretary of defense and he should apply it with rigor. He is just acknowledging what is the grounded reality of the current U.S. military: it is commanded by politicains not warriors.

25 sats \ 1 reply \ @398ja 8h

If the US want to remain the leader in the new multipolar world, one thing they cannot afford anymore is complacency, ie lack of accountability and meritocracy, gender ideology, etc, as well as all the crazy stuff that has been the trademark of recent liberal democracies. Trump gets this, Europe still hasn't woken up to that new reality, and it desperately should, very quickly, before it's too late.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 8h

Yes, I hope they are not done by a long shot. There are a lot of placeholders to get rid of.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 10h

Absolutely agree. We don't need a military that takes political sides, we need a military to be a military.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 9h

If the military people are being infected with the mind virus, then we are as good as the cooked goose. They are supposed to stay on their toes, and not for ballet, either. They need to spend more time on their craft rather than extraneous stuff.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 10h

The show just keeps getting better.

38 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 10h

Oh, I hope he is just warming up, yet. I want to see more tears and shrieks of pain from those a**holes. The ones with stars are especially deserving of everything going their way. Incoming is what they should be yelling, then ducking and covering.