General Randy George getting pushed out by Pete Hegseth in the middle of a war is exactly what happens when politics are allowed to matter more than experience, stability, and the lives of the people actually fighting.
Randy George is a career infantryman who enlisted in 1982, fought his way into West Point, bled in combat, and spent decades leading soldiers from platoon level all the way up to the entire U.S. Army.
Hegseth’s move isn’t just a personnel decision, it’s a message: fall in line with the personality cult or your record, your expertise, and your duty to speak hard truths won’t protect you.
Doing that in peacetime would be reckless; doing it in wartime, rips out continuity, disrupts planning, and tells every officer down the chain that loyalty to Trump matters more than competence and candor.
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