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Who Moves Up, and Who's Pushed Out, in Pete Hegseth's Military

Who Moves Up, and Who's Pushed Out, in Pete Hegseth's Military

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been replacing top-ranking U.S. military officers with those who, many argue, show more loyalty to Hegseth and his ideas than to the military itself.

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For the past 18 months, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has remade
the top ranks of the U.S. military — dismissing or sidelining
many whose rise he believes was aided by D.E.I. and replacing
them with officers who fit his definition of merit. In the
process, many argue he’s prioritizing loyalty to him and his
ideas over loyalty to the military itself.

Today, Greg Jaffe, a New York Times reporter who covers the
Pentagon and the U.S. military, takes us inside the hiring and
firing for a single job that has become a case study for
Hegseth’s approach.

Guest: Greg Jaffe, a reporter covering the
Pentagon and the U.S. military for The New York Times.

Background reading:

Before he was picked to lead the Navy, Adm. Daryl Caudle
found ways to signal his support for Mr. Hegseth’s anti-diversity
goals.

Mr. Hegseth fired the Navy’s top officer, Adm. Lisa
Franchetti, who spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea,
commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and the U.S.
Sixth Fleet.

Photo: Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

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