Pete Hegseth Is Unleashing Chaos at the Pentagon

Defense Secretary Pete Hegses loves posting photos of herself. And you can hardly blame him. Hegseth ahead of the NATO meeting in February Seeded Social Media In the photo he showed him working with the Marines stationed in Europe, lifted the weights and went for a jog. His carved face and athletic build are not just assets, but definitely his only selling point. Hegseth continues to be hired for his looks, which wasn’t too surprising in his previous post as a host of Fox News. If you’re on TV, being photogenic comes with work.

Meanwhile, Hegses’ current position as Secretary of Defense is not usually a job in which the primary qualifications are visually prominent. However, Hegses was chosen for his role by a rare president. Before becoming commander, Donald Trump’s biggest claim to fame was to be a reality TV star. apprenticehe pretended to make decisions about employment and firing. As president, Trump took a media approach to the same question. His Favorite praise for his own candidate That means they are straight from “central casting.” Apart from Hegus, Trump has it We’ve increased at least 18 Fox News personalities For high-level administrative posts.

If Hegses doesn’t suit Trump’s ideals of a physically attractive man, he might be unemployed. His appointment was controversial and only cleared the Senate by the grace of Vice President J.D. Vance. Even the Republican senator blanched his sleazy personal history. $50,000 financial settlement For rape allegations. His management experience was also not close to what he needed to run the Pentagon. This is a complex bureaucracy that employs over 3 million people.

As New Yorker It has been reported In December, “Heggs was forced to resign to the two nonprofit advocacy groups he ran for (both Betalan and American veterans for freedom). He hired about 160 American veterans who are concerned that there are fewer than 20 veterans for freedom. If Hegges hashed those organizations, what can we expect when he takes charge of the world’s largest military?

Naturally, Hegses brought the same obstacles and confusion to the Pentagon, characterizing his messy and troublesome life. Part of this mayhem is ideology. As I pointed out in the previous column, Trump has turned the troops into a magazine facility, used the troops to quell domestic protests, and political speeches that serve as stage props. Hegses has done so much of this dangerous politicization of the military. Purge army of trans soldiers Not only will you give positive respect to Jackie Robinson and such civil rights pioneers; Harvey Milk. Hegseth retreated from removing Robinson from the Department of Defense website after the protest, but his general cross for creating a right-wing force continues.

But Magazine is not just ideology. Trump’s chaotic management style is the logical growth of his powerful politics, and the leader’s whims counts more than consistent policy.

In April, Trump supporter John Ulitt, who served as communications director for the 2016 campaign and served as the supreme defense spokesman during Trump’s first term, I warned in Politics The pentagonal “total chaos”. Ullyot’s responsibilities resonated with a New York Times Report Hegseth “created unparalleled chaos in recent Department of Defense history.” These reports sparked Don Bacon, a Nebraskan Republican who works for the House Armed Services Committee; Proposed Hegseth should resign by saying, “It looks like the meltdown is ongoing.”

The best accounts we have about the confusion at the Pentagon Hegseth’s in-depth report profile in new york A magazine written by Kelly Howley. This article focuses on a witch hunt for leaking customers, triggered by the scope of bad press, and a story that focuses on two cases in which Heggs shares sensitive government information about the signal. As a result of subsequent negative press, Hegses spread rumors about his Chief of Staff Joe Casper, a highly inqualified Loyalist, who spread rumors about his perceived enemy. At one point, Hegseth threatened Christopher Grady, vice-chairman of the Co-Chief of Staff, with “connecting to the Polygraph!”

One of the disappointing consequences of this uproar was the firing of key advisers around Hegzes, including Colin Carroll, the Secretary of Defense’s Chief of Staff. Senior Advisor Dan Caldwell. Deputy Chief of Staff Darryn Selnick; These were very necessary to have careful voices. Caldwell’s firing was particularly disappointing as he was a major advocate for a more restrained foreign policy.

This purge has an inner circle of loyalty and family, including his personal attorney, Tim Paratore. his brother, Phil Hegses; and his wife, Jennifer Hegses. These loyalists are currently working with Heggs of the Pentagon. He is particularly devoted to his wife and has seven photos of her in his office. He says he owe it all to two “Js”: Jesus and Jennifer.

Howley provides clear photos of the Department of Defense’s disruption.

These several months of Pentagon sources explain the persistent instability. People either quit or were fired, and their roles were not fulfilled…

Heggs was different after that. SignalGateaccording to six people in a position to know. He was prone to anger and was unlikely to get a clean shaving in the morning. He seemed reluctant to make a decision. He was waiting for an order from the White House and was scared to do the wrong thing. They say that pentagons are “creative.” This was a mechanism for implementing executive orders. Each new leak contributed to Hegzes’ sense that he was surrounded by malls in a league with his enemies.

This level of pentagonal confusion is troubling enough, even in normal conditions of peace (as rare as it is in modern American history). But they are even more concerned as Donald Trump betrayed his promise to avoid war. Instead, Trump appears to have been keen to deploy his troops both domestically and internationally on the streets of Los Angeles and above Iranian skies in his second term. The few voices claiming to restrain the Trump administration have either been cleansed (which happens to be Caldwell) or are effectively silent (in the case of Vice President J.D. Vance and Director of National Intelligence Tarsi Gabbard).

This is a good time for Congress to investigate Hegses’ pentagon and push for his resignation. Some of the Congress like Don Bacon gestures in that direction, but the unfortunate fact is that he attacks Hegses on the absurd grounds that he is not a militarist. sufficient. In a reprise of Russiagate’s folly in Trump’s first term, Congressional Democrats and Republicans Upbraid hegeth unites To stop weapons cargo to Ukraine. Whatever the policy in this question is, it is a small issue compared to the Secretary of Defense’s Pentagon and the politicized management style of chaotic management. Here, like elsewhere, bipartisan facilities continue to fail to explain Trump’s White House.