General Chris Donahue. Delta Force commander. 18 combat deployments. The last American soldier to leave Afghanistan. The Army’s #1 expert on drone warfare — the exact threat we’re facing right now in the Iran war.
Pete Hegseth just forced him out..and he isn’t alone. Over 20 senior officers, all with extensive combat operations experience, have been pushed out since Hegseth took over the Pentagon; with ZERO official explanations. Retired Navy Commander Bobby Jones looks at the Warrior Background of these Leaders and ask the question: Is Hegseth at War with Warriors?
Republican lawmakers are divided over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s ouster of Gen. Chris Donahue, the commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa.
All Republicans heaped praise on Donahue, who was widely seen as a rising star in the Army and who spent decades in the military special operations realm, where he was an Army Ranger and part of Delta Force, rising later to commander of the elite unit.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who has ramped up his criticism of the Trump administration since announcing his retirement at the end of the term, hammered Hegseth for making another “unforced” error and accused him of leading the Pentagon with “bro-culture bravado rather than restraint, humility and careful stewardship of the finest fighting force in the world.”
“Strong leaders are not threatened by accomplished commanders. Weak ones are. His paranoid micromanagement of senior military leaders and promotion lists is pure insecurity dressed up as reform. He is more interested in purging people he perceives as insufficiently loyal than empowering proven patriots”
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5941693-hegseth-ousts-general-donahue-pentagon/