Natural Selection
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20 out of 841 generals and admirals have been removed from position. Thats 2.4%. Some purge. 🙄
Say it nice and fail: you’re respected. Say it blunt and win: you’re a problem. That tells you everything about the system.
JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
Reasons the “187 flag officers removed by Obama” claim is false The claim that President Obama removed 187 flag officers collapses under scrutiny because it conflates routine personnel turnover with actual removals, mislabels normal retirements and reassignments as “firings,” and relies on unverified lists circulated by political blogs rather than documented DoD actions. Every credible review shows that the number 187 was created by aggregating all officer departures — including promotions, end‑of‑tour rotations, medical retirements, misconduct cases, and voluntary separations — and then presenting them as politically motivated purges. In reality, the Pentagon publicly announced only a small number of genuine reliefs or forced retirements during Obama’s presidency, and these were tied to specific causes such as misconduct, command‑climate failures, or performance issues, not political cleansing. No official DoD database, inspector general report, congressional oversight document, or reputable news source supports anything close to 187; the real figure is closer to 18–27 across eight years, which is normal turnover for a modern force of roughly 900–950 general and flag officers.
We can’t pretend the Iran war is not our war too mol.im/a/15704687
Two star military chaplain publishes a 112 page spiritual guide for 🇺🇸 warriors. Zero mentions of Jesus. ZERO. Non-denominational writings will at least recognizes Jesus as a historical figure. Marxists erase him altogether. General Green is a commie.
Sec. Hegseth fired over 20 top generals and admirals, including a top Army general who served 7 presidents this week. Purging generals to settle personal or political vendettas is what happens in China or Russia, not America. I broke down why this is dangerous back in November:
