Trump breaks with unwritten rule: he also purifies military top and carries ‘real general’ for

The ‘anti-woke’ purification drive from the Trump government has also reached the highest ranks of the American armed forces. On Friday evening, the president reported the resignation of Charles Q. Brown in a post on social media as chairman of the United Chefs of Staven (Joint Chiefs of Staff). The Admiral of the Navy, the deputy commander of the Air Force and the highest military lawyers in three army units are also replaced, Minister Pete Hegseeth of Defense reported not much later.

With the Congé for CQ Brown, whose term ran until 2027, Trump breaks with the unwritten rule that presidents do not replace this top soldier before. The four-star general and former fighter pilot, however, was very clearly on the seesaw since Trump’s choice for Hegseeth as a Pentagon boss.

As a TV presenter and in a book, the veteran Hegseeth regularly criticized ‘Woke Generals’, who would have ‘blame and weakened’ the forces. For example, he took the position that women would not be suitable for combat roles, among other things because they would ‘distract’ male colleagues. According to Hegseeth, diversity programs are hunting “America’s white sons and daughters” and in a podcast he already ordered to dismiss Brown last November.

As a candidate minister, Hegseeth gave up his resistance against fighting women last month under pressure from critical Republican senators. However, he now seems to fire Admiral Lisa Franchetti because she is a woman. In 2023, for example, Hegseeth criticized her appointment as the first woman as the highest naval commander. The day after his arrival, Trump also fired the first female commander in the history of the coast guard.

Emancipation machine

The American armed forces traditionally count as an emancipation machine where minorities can rise faster than in the civil society. Brown, who was nominated under the Biden government as the second Afro-American ever at this top position, wanted to stimulate this further. That brought him into the sights of Trumpists, who want to abolish the diversity and inclusion policy. After Brown commanders invited more African-Americans and other minorities from the ‘applicant’s pool’, they criticized this, for example, as an implicit call for ‘ethnic quota’.

Brown also had right -wing criticism in his previous role as Chief of Staff of the Air Force. This after he recorded a video in 2020 after the controversial police officer George Floyd in which he called his death “tragic” and stated that he was “full of emotions”. He also dismissed a Trump-Loyalist as commander of the Space Force, after he had written a book about ‘Marxism’ that would advance in the ranks.

Meeting in Iraq

Trump now wants Brown replaced by Lieutenant-General BD than ‘Raizin’ Caine. The former F16 pilot has experience not only on the battlefield, but also within the Bush Jr. government, the National Security Council, Intelligence Service CIA and recently as a venture investor. However, he is much less known with the SRS or bureaucracy of the Pentagon.

The protocol prescribes that the chairman must have served as the highest commander or as staff chef of a military branch. The president does, however, have the room to deviate from this code in the interest of national security. Before his appointment by the Senate, Caine must first be employed again and promoted to a four -star general. Among Republican senators, who have a majority in this room, the first reactions to Caines recitation were positive.

Trump has been impressed by Caine for years and gave him high of him several times during public performances. He met him in 2018 during his first presidency to visit American troops in Iraq. Caine then told him that the Islamic State terror group could also be ‘wiped out’ in a few weeks. This while Trumps then commanders, the president complained, said this would take two years.

After his departure from the White House, at the beginning of 2021, Trump continued to sing the praise for this “real general.” Last year, for example, he told CPAC at the conservative annual fair that Caine set up a red Maga baseball cap during their visit to Iraq. It is forbidden for soldiers to propagate political positions and Caine would have denied this against close employees, reported The New York Times Saturday.

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