Dept. of Defense in disarray, Pentagon chaos, Hegseth competence in doubt

[Synthaholic]

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Whiskey Pete's mommy outed him!

 

[justoffal]

Once upon a time, the Secretary of Defense was a brilliant military officer (Forrestal), or a captain of industry (Charlie Wilson, McNamara, Schultz, Regan)

Now, it’s some corporal who had an afternoon gig reading propoganda on Fox News.

I don’t know where you got this about DoD misplacing four trillion dollars. Did you make that one up too?

Rumsfeld admitted it openly.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

‘A series of leaks about military planning for the Panama Canal and the Middle East, about a possible consolidation of the combatant commands, and about a classified China briefing for Elon Musk at the Pentagon had deeply rattled Hegseth by mid-March, sources told CNN. So he and Kasper launched a leak probe, complete with polygraph tests.

Following the press reports — including one in The New York Times about the questionable success of a massive military campaign against the Houthis — Hegseth began to lash out and grew suspicious that senior military officials, as well as some of his closest advisers, were leaking to undermine him, the sources added.
[…]
The turmoil has raised more concerns about Hegseth’s judgment and priorities among current and former officials, and comes as the Pentagon is executing a major military operation in the Middle East against the Houthis, moving assets to the region in the event of a wider war between Israel and Iran, and surging troops and equipment to the southern border.

“Unfortunately, after a terrible month, the Pentagon focus is no longer on warfighting, but on endless drama,” Ullyot said.’

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/20/politics/hegseth-second-signal-chat-military-plans/index.html

‘Military planning’ for the Panama Canal alone is evidence of madness and incompetence – proof both Trump and Hegseth are incompetent and unfit to hold any public office.

Yeah I wonder why

 

[pknopp]

I can just imagine the eye rolling when Petey came in and instructed the generals to draw up plans to attack Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal.

Someone then said "guys stop your chuckling, I think he's serious".

 

[MarcATL]

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Is this the first Whiskeyleak?

 

[Synthaholic]

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Fire him.

 

[Zincwarrior]

‘A series of leaks about military planning for the Panama Canal and the Middle East, about a possible consolidation of the combatant commands, and about a classified China briefing for Elon Musk at the Pentagon had deeply rattled Hegseth by mid-March, sources told CNN. So he and Kasper launched a leak probe, complete with polygraph tests.

Following the press reports — including one in The New York Times about the questionable success of a massive military campaign against the Houthis — Hegseth began to lash out and grew suspicious that senior military officials, as well as some of his closest advisers, were leaking to undermine him, the sources added.
[…]
The turmoil has raised more concerns about Hegseth’s judgment and priorities among current and former officials, and comes as the Pentagon is executing a major military operation in the Middle East against the Houthis, moving assets to the region in the event of a wider war between Israel and Iran, and surging troops and equipment to the southern border.

“Unfortunately, after a terrible month, the Pentagon focus is no longer on warfighting, but on endless drama,” Ullyot said.’

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/20/politics/hegseth-second-signal-chat-military-plans/index.html

‘Military planning’ for the Panama Canal alone is evidence of madness and incompetence – proof both Trump and Hegseth are incompetent and unfit to hold any public office.

MAGA!

 

[Synthaholic]

They're all criminals.

 

[Synthaholic]

 

[Synthaholic]

Republican reaction to Hegseth shows that email gate was all totall bullshit.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

And the beat goes on:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/hegseth-chief-of-staff-pentagon-leaving-00308721

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s controversial chief of staff, who played a central role in a power struggle that gripped the Pentagon, will exit the agency today.

Joe Kasper was originally expected to transition to another role within the Defense Department, but is now planning to go back to government relations and consulting, he said in an interview.

He will continue to support and advise the Pentagon, he said, but as a special government employee. This will limit him to performing temporary jobs for just 130 days a year.

A former longtime chief of staff to indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter, Kasper was a leading figure in the firings of senior adviser Dan Caldwell, Hegseth deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, the chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg. The trio were ousted last week in a leak investigation.

Some officials saw the wave of firings as a bid by Kasper to consolidate power.

“Kasper did not like that those guys had the secretary’s ear,” a person familiar with the dynamic said. “He did not like that they had walk-in and hanging-out privileges in the office. He wanted them out. It was a knife fight.”

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Such an easy target.

 

[Man With A Plan]

Ah yes...more unnamed sources claiming "chaos" is happening in the Trump Administration! These are the same people who have been lying to us for years now but you want us to believe them one more time?

The only chaos I see is taking place on the Democratic side of the aisle. AOC, Crockett and Hogg are the new voices of the Democrats? They're backing younger candidates that are further to the left, against long time Democrats? There are no moderates left in the Democratic Party.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Ah yes...more unnamed sources claiming "chaos" is happening in the Trump Administration! These are the same people who have been lying to us for years now but you want us to believe them one more time?

The only chaos I see is taking place on the Democratic side of the aisle. AOC, Crockett and Hogg are the new voices of the Democrats? They're backing younger candidates that are further to the left, against long time Democrats? There are no moderates left in the Democratic Party.

There are as many moderates in the Democratic party as there are moderates in the Republican party.
Sadly, their voices are not heard...on either side of the aisle, the extremists on both sides--the Progs vs the MAGA, have hijacked both parties.

 

[westwall]

In other words Biden hacks are undermining the Command-in-Chief and his appointed Secretary.

They’ll be found out and fired.

Hopefully indicted and sent to prison.

 

[otto105]

In other words Biden hacks are undermining the Command-in-Chief and his appointed Secretary.

They’ll be found out and fired.

Everyone in the makeup room now!!!

 

[westwall]

He is a Trump stooge who was picked because Trump liked the way he looked on Fox Noise.

He has no managerial experience, never commanded anything, and knows nothing about his new job.

He is dangerously incompetent. Everyone in DoD knows it.

No, fuzzy britches. He's dangerously COMPETENT!

That's why you retards are so desperate to have him removed.

 

[Synthaholic]