Hegseth befiehlt eine seltene, dringende Treffen von Hunderten von Generälen, Admirale
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/25/hegseth-generals-quantico-meeting/
Hegseth befiehlt eine seltene, dringende Treffen von Hunderten von Generälen, Admirale
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/25/hegseth-generals-quantico-meeting/
45 Kommentare
Normally this would be worrying because it would mean potential Warfare overseas. Now that is worrying because it means potential Warfare against americans here.
Non-paywall text:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm after the Trump administration’s firing of numerous senior leaders this year.
The highly unusual directive was sent to virtually all of the military’s top commanders worldwide, according to more than a dozen people familiar with the matter. The directive was issued earlier this week, as a government shutdown looms, and months after Hegseth’s team at the Pentagon announced plans to undertake a sweeping consolidation of top military commands.
In a statement Thursday, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell affirmed that Hegseth “will be addressing his senior military leaders early next week,” but he offered no additional details. Parnell, a senior adviser to the defense secretary, voiced no concerns about The Washington Post reporting on the meeting, scheduled for Tuesday in Quantico, Virginia.
There are about 800 generals and admirals spread across the United States and dozens of other countries and time zones. Hegseth’s order, people familiar with the matter said, applies to all senior officers with the rank of brigadier general or above, or their Navy equivalent, serving in command positions and their top enlisted advisers. Typically, these officers each oversee hundreds or thousands of rank-and-file troops.
Top commanders in conflict zones and senior military leaders stationed throughout Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region are among those expected to attend Hegseth’s meeting, said people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to publicly discuss the issue. The order does not apply to top military officers who hold staff positions.
None of the people who spoke with The Post could recall a defense secretary ever ordering so many of the military’s generals and admirals to assemble like this. Several said it raised security concerns.
“People are very concerned. They have no idea what it means,” one person said.
Two others expressed frustration that even many commanders stationed overseas will be required to attend. One said, this is “not how this is done.”
“You don’t call GOFOs leading their people and the global force into an auditorium outside D.C. and not tell them why/what the topic or agenda is,” this person said, using an abbreviation for general officer or flag officer.
“Are we taking every general and flag officer out of the Pacific right now?” one U.S. official said. “All of it is weird.”
The orders come as Hegseth has unilaterally directed massive recent changes at the Pentagon — including directing that the number of general officers be reduced by 20 percent, firing senior leaders without cause and a high-profile new order to rebrand the Defense Department as the Department of War.
Top administration officials also have preparing a new national defense strategy that is expected to make homeland defense the nation’s top concern, after several years of China being identified as the top national security risk to the United States.
Some officials familiar with the order to travel said they thought that may come up.
Hegseth’s directive in May to slash about 100 generals and admirals also has generated concern among top military leaders. He called then for a “minimum” 20 percent cut to the number of four-star officers — the military’s top rank — on active duty and a corresponding number of generals in the National Guard. There also will be another 10 percent reduction, at least, to the total number of generals and admirals across the force.
Last month Hegseth fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency; Vice Adm. Nancy Lacore, the chief of the Navy Reserve; and Rear Adm. Milton Sands, a Navy SEAL officer who oversaw Naval Special Warfare Command. No specific reason was given in either case.
The firings were the latest in a wider purge of national security agencies’ top ranks. Since entering office, the Trump administration also has fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.; the chief of naval operations, Adm. Lisa Franchetti; the commandant of the Coast Guard, Adm. Linda Fagan; and the Air Force vice chief of staff, Gen. James Slife among others.
The list includes a disproportionate number of women.
Gen. David Allvin, the chief of staff of the Air Force, announced last month he will step down in November, after he was asked to retire.
probably just unveiling some Kirk statue or some other bullshit
„Seven Days in May“?
Here we go folks. Either he’s starting WW3 on his own or we need to strap in at the home front for more of this administration’s government fuckery
Sounds like it’s time for a good ol‘ purge party.
Maybe line everyone up and ask them to take some new oaths or be replaced on the spot?
When it comes to this administration I tend to think what’s the worst thing they can do to harm us and help our enemies.
A purge
A bad foreign actor can take out everyone that knows anything about warfare in 1 shot as they’ll all be in the same location.
This is just outright stupidity.
They should call in sick.
He is going to try to find out who is loyal and who is not…and fire the ones he believes are disloyal.
Here comes the [imperial boomerang](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang)?
Reinforcing an oath of aligence to the king, to qush any descent as the country tips into unadulterated autocracy.
Just one more example of why it’s insanely stupid to put a drunken Faux News idiot in charge of the military. Can’t wait to see the justification for this unnecessary clusterfuck.
What is Hegseth cooking up now? Urgent meetings usually mean something is brewing. Let’s just hope it’s not another reckless decision
All this modern communications technology and they want all their top people in the same room. Military’s version of “This could have been an email”
Happy hour
>guys, can someone tell me what i’m supposed to do? cause this job seems really hard and everyone is so serious all the time
The urgency is the dastardly unprovoked attack by the UN on Dear Leader
I’d be concerned from a security perspective to call all these people in. Second, we can’t assume it is a national thing as they are asking generals to come from overseas. My concern would be the recent meeting between China, Russia, North Korea, India and Iran.
What could be possibly be so urgent that it couldnt just be sent via Signal groupchat messages instead???
Every one of our military leaders in one spot what could possibly go wrong yall.
Probably calling them all together to get them to sign the Trump loyalty papers or be fired
Who knows anymore? This could be some huge dangerous announcement of military conflict, or a brainstorming session on how to throw Trump a surprise military party to commemorate his stupid ballroom
The ultimate „this meeting could have been an e-mail“.
He’s probably getting everybody’s help and input on the most serious issue this administration has faced to date: who hit the stop button on that escalator?
They’re going to feel out a domestic deployment and suppression. Identify the ones who would resist and the ones who will comply and the ones enthusiastic about it.
Here comes the military occupation.
I’m just going to hope this means some kind of US involvement in Ukraine (especially after Russian comms show orders to kill civilians and that drone footage showing Russian soldiers using a child as a human shield.
Pete Hegseth is an UnAmerican Christian Nationalist. He posts videos of Christian Nationalist and white supremacist pastor Doug Wilson on his Twitter. Doug Wilson defends the institution of slavery, doesn’t believe in the separation of church and state, is in favor of repealing the 19th amendment denying the right to vote to women, and supported Confederate ideology, among other things.
Christian nationalism seeks to merge Christian and American identities, distorting both the Christian faith and America’s constitutional democracy. Christian nationalism demands Christianity be privileged by the State and implies that to be a good American, one must be Christian. It often overlaps with and provides cover for white supremacy and racial subjugation. We reject this damaging political ideology and invite our fellow Christians to join us in opposing this threat to our faith and to our nation. –Christians Against Christian Nationalism
[https://www.christiansagainstchristiannationalism.org/statement](https://www.christiansagainstchristiannationalism.org/statement)
He’s just going to yell at the them for a couple of hours about loyalty to the Moldy Cheeto.
Things are getting scary
They are going to do an ideological purge. We are very close to the danger zone.
Hear me out: it was a bad idea to hire a TV producer to be in charge of our military. “Change my mind.”
Ba’ath Party Purge Revisited
All U.S. generals and admirals worldwide to gather in a one place and we all know the location. Call in sick y’all.
Defense of Homeland does not mean what one would normally think. They are gonna crack down, or try to. I can see this going a lot of ways.
Have to wonder if it’s in relation to all these drones that keep popping up over NATO countries and disappearing without being caught or brought down.
Even if his reason for calling this meeting is innocuous, it is insanely stupid to put your top military brass all together in one place and provide a convenient target for some nefarious entity.
Project 2025’s and Putin’s plan all along. Ruin everything in America including our military.
Baathist purge. Only those swearing fealty to the emperor will be allowed to command.
This is terrifying. They’re gonna enact the purge for real. Expect the DNC to be declared a terrorist organization, with all the insanity that such a declaration would have downstream
Very reminiscent of the Ba’ath Party purge carried out by Saddam Hussein in July 1979.
Must be frustrating for a general who has spent their life in the military taking orders from a fox news host
Hopefully Hegseth was just drunk texting, but if not three possibilities come to mind:
1) Hegseth is working with NATO to prepare for a European war with Russia in response to the attacks on Poland and Denmark and the Pentagon plans to brief everyone for a potential world war when China joins the war. Really bad. 🙁
2) Hegseth is planning a purge of the top brass who are more loyal to the Constitution than Trump in preparation for invoking the insurrection act and declaring martial law to crack down on dissent, help round up undocumented people, and prevent either the mid-terms or 2028 election. WAY WORSE! 8-(
3) (Crazy theory) The Denmark attack were OUR drones and Trump’s teaming up with Russia to stiff NATO in exchange for getting Greenland. And the Pentagon plans to brief everyone for a potential world war when China joins the war on the Russia/Trump Regime side.
4) (Even crazier theory) They are preparing to announce that aliens are real and will be a) taking over the Earth and/or 3i/atlas is a Vogon SMOD preparing for a new interstellar highway. Don’t panic.
Great idea 💡
Let’s gather a majority of our military leadership in one place for some propaganda exercise. Seems strategically sound.
/s
Signal couldn’t handle a zoom meeting like this? Asking for a friend
They are at the next stage of the fascist takeover, remove all the Generals and Admirals not „loyal“ enough.
Secretary of war Jägermeister will set some outlandish rules and since they can’t be met, he will start removing them.