No. of Recommendations: 9
What a rotten little POS Hegseth is. He is weakening our armed forces and doing long term damage to the DoD.
Just another example:
Inside the Battle to Save One Pioneering General From Hegseth’s PurgeGen. Christopher T. Donahue’s vision for fighting future wars won him powerful supporters around the world. Could they save his career?
Shor answer: no.
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nytimes.com - Hegseth army general donahueRead the whole article for an in-depth look at what our incompetent and insecure SecDef is doing to our military.
Hegseth reminds of bad bosses I've had who hated to have people under their supervision that were better than they were. Hegseth, like Trump, is an insecure little man with a huge ego and he just wants loyalty over competence and experience. He's going to seriously degrade our military.
Snippets:
These were the facts of General Donahue’s three-decade career: He had seen more combat in his 20-plus deployments than just about any officer in the U.S. military. A star in the clandestine world of special forces, he had spent years in the shadows hunting terrorist leaders. And then as the world and warfare changed, he changed with it.
He had played a central role in the U.S. military’s efforts to help Ukraine hold off a much larger Russian force, a job that inspired his vision for a new kind of combat that married divebombing drones, robotics and artificial intelligence.
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It amounts to one of the most consequential chapters in Mr. Hegseth’s campaign to drive out those he sees as out of step with his priorities, a leadership purge that his critics say is driven by ideology, identity and suspicion of those with tenuous ties to former military leaders that he does not like. And it shows the intensity of the behind-the-scenes battle to save one general.
The more General Donahue’s allies pushed, the more Mr. Hegseth’s opposition seemed to harden.
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The first item on the card that Mr. Kasper handed to Mr. Hegseth in the car clarified that the photo was not a selfie and that General Donahue had nothing to do with its distribution. Other bullet points noted that Marines, not General Donahue’s paratroopers, were in charge of the gate where the suicide bombing occurred.
The defense secretary glanced at the card and passed it back to his chief of staff.
“I don’t care,” Mr. Hegseth told Mr. Kasper.
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Three decades had passed since General Donahue graduated from West Point. He was in his mid-20s when his leadership skills and football player’s build caught the eye of a senior officer in Delta Force, the Army’s elite counterterrorism unit.
He survived the selection process and disappeared into a world of secrecy and fake personas. Deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and other hot spots followed as he rose to become Delta’s top commander.
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On the 2024 campaign trail, Mr. Trump blasted the Biden administration for the withdrawal and the Abbey Gate deaths, calling the episode “the most embarrassing moment in the history of the United States.” He wondered why no generals had been fired for it.
He did not mention the deal he had cut with the Taliban that set the collapse in motion.
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In a meeting with Mr. Sheehy, General Caine explained why: The senators’ campaign was only causing Mr. Hegseth’s opposition to grow, reinforcing his perception that General Donahue was too powerful, independent and connected.
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With less than a month left in General Donahue’s career, Ms. Ernst asked him if he would be interested in taking over the four-star command in Austin, Texas, focused on transforming the Army.
It would give him a new platform to spread the vision that he had made a reality in Europe. But he had a big concern.
“Do you honestly think Secretary Hegseth would work with me if I was there?” General Donahue asked, according to a congressional official familiar with the exchange.
“Honestly, no,” Ms. Ernst replied.
General Donahue retired on Aug. 27, surrounded by people he had fought alongside. 