Interesting, POTUS is well and truly worried to DEI.
The Economist reports POTUS sacks America’s top military brass. The navy chief, the air force second-in-command and military lawyers have all been fired, too.
The first shot against America’s senior military leaders was fired within hours of Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20th: General Mark Milley’s portrait was removed from the wall on the E-ring, where it had hung with paintings of other former chairmen of the joint chiefs of staff. A day later the commandant of the coast guard, Admiral Linda Fagan, was thrown overboard.
On February 21st it was the most senior serving officer, General Charles “CQ” Brown, a former F-16 pilot, who was ejected from the Pentagon. At least he was spared a Trumpian farewell insult. “He is a fine gentleman and an outstanding leader,” Mr Trump declared.
Other top brass were cashiered, too, among them Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the chief of naval operations; and General James Slife, the deputy head of the air force. Perhaps even more alarming, given the administration’s trashing of conventions across the federal government, the judge advocates general of the army, navy and air force, were dismissed, too.The sackings have little to do with kindling the “warrior ethos”, which the defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, vows to do. General Brown has clocked more than 3,000 flight hours, including 130 in combat. Admiral Franchetti had commanded not one but two aircraft-carrier strike groups.
Instead they are casualties of the culture wars that the Trump administration is waging against “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI). General Brown is the most prominent black military officer; Admirals Fagan and Franchetti were the first women in their jobs.
