Trump and Hegseth on collision course with senior military leaders
By
Mike Brest
November 14, 2024 2:15 pm
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President-elect Donald Trump proudly declared on the campaign trail that if he were to win a second term, change would sweep through the Department of Defense.
His pick of Pete Hegseth signals he fully intends to carry out that campaign promise, and the most high profile casualty could be Gen. Charles Q. Brown, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Trump has chosen Hegseth — a former Army National Guardsman with multiple deployments overseas — to be the next Secretary of Defense, and he will come into the department, if confirmed by the Senate, with a mandate to carry out what the president-elect had touted on the campaign trail.
Both Trump and Hegseth have expressed similar views about the issues they believe are currently plaguing the Pentagon, and how they should be solved, one of the main ones being the department’s emphasis on diversity.
“The dumbest phrase on planet Earth in the military is our diversity is our strength,” Hegseth told Shawn Ryan in a podcast interview last week prior to Trump’s announcement.
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