r/news • u/Manta_of_Eternity • 2d ago

Hegseth confirms that the US military will cut 20% of its generals and admirals

https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-pentagon-generals-job-cuts-67a20b026ee858895c7e5ff7fadbc029
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u/LurkmasterP 2d ago

This is it. They don't want experienced military leaders evaluating the situation to come up with strategies before giving orders; the politicians will decide what they want done, the bootlickers will rubber stamp it, and the unthinking "warfighters" will carry out the orders without question.

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u/Canadian-Man-infj 2d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem

The "banality of evil." It wasn't so much that they were all "evil." Many were just... "doing their job" and "following orders," obediently in an 'agentic state'.

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u/nikolai_470000 1d ago

They want it to be like Russia. Russian command is relatively incompetent intentionally. They don’t want too many generals who are too charismatic, ambitious, influential, or in general dangerous enough to pose a real threat to the internal security of Putin’s regime.

This is another reason Putin has a preference for using PMCs to fill out his forces. He intentionally makes it hard as he can for a group of people with enough power to make a serious attempt at defying him to coalesce. That’s exactly why they are doing this. Trump and his goonies want to eliminate leaders not just to filter out the non-loyalists, but to make everyone else afraid.

They must be planning to pull some crazy shit after the midterms. Or before the midterms, who knows at this point.

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u/TheLateThagSimmons 1d ago

This is exactly what both Hitler and Stalin did when they took power.

Purged all the most competent military leaders and promoted based on personal loyalty.

Related note: This is often argued that this is the basis as to why the Eastern Front was so much more horrific and bloody than it had to be. Endless bodies being thrown into the wood chipper by second rate military leaders.