In what may be an unprecedented move, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has summoned top military brass to Washington for a meeting:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will meet with top military leaders next week, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday, following a report that the rare gathering will include hundreds of generals and admirals.
“The Secretary of War will be addressing his senior military leaders early next week,” chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement to The Hill, offering no additional details.
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More than a dozen people familiar with the matter told the outlet that the directive was sent to virtually all of the military’s top commanders worldwide — all senior officers with the rank of brigadier general or above, their Navy equivalent and their top enlisted advisers — roughly 800 generals or admirals.The unexpected confab has created confusion and alarm, as there has not been a Defense secretary in recent history who has ordered such a large number of the military’s top officers to gather like this.
When I read that an action by the Trump administration is causing “confusion and alarm,” I think: good.
But what is going on here? I would assume Hegseth would assemble the full panoply of generals and admirals to announce a major change in strategy or defense policy. We won’t have to wait long to find out; the New York Times and the Washington Post will be the first to know, as liberal generals leak their version of the meeting.
The Hill casually concludes its article with this. I have no idea whether it relates to next Tuesday’s meeting:
Other big changes at the Pentagon include a new national defense strategy that is reportedly expected to make homeland defense the top U.S. security concern, replacing China.
