This is on hegseth and trump.
Firing top military leaders with a lot of experience only because they don't agree with hegseth or trump, or because they are not the right sex or color, or because of politics, will never work in a democracy.
We are now the laughing stock of many nations and that cannot be changed.
25th Amendment, Section 4 - Declare a President Unfit
The 25th Amendment, Section 4, allows the Vice President and a Cabinet majority to declare a President unfit, transferring power to the Vice President.
The ousters of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George and Army Gen. David Hodne blindsided military leaders and have generated concern among defense officials about the implications for the war in Iran and the longer-term adoption of new tech and tactics.
Why it matters: George and Hodne join a growing list of generals and flag officers booted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. These abrupt exits have reshaped the Joint Chiefs of Staff, intel-collecting agencies and combatant commands.
Another American plane involved in the war in Iran crashed in the Persian Gulf today, according to US officials cited by The New York Times.
According to the Times, the A-10 Warthog went down near the Strait of Hormuz at around the same time that an F-15E was shot down over Iran.
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services and one of the most conservative Catholic prelates in the United States, declared the Iran war unjust on CBS’s Face the Nation in an interview set to air Easter Sunday.
He told Ed O’Keefe that Catholic service members are not morally bound to obey every order in a conflict that fails the Church’s just war criteria — and that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s invocation of Jesus Christ to justify the war is “problematic.”
Here is the false statement made by CENTCOM April 2, at 4:40 pm. This is why it is hard to get good updates in the U.S. and the reason why international sources seem to publish Iran war incidents first on some occasions