Hegseth’s escalating purge is rocking the US military

Power struggles in Washington DC are nothing new. The US capital is a one-industry town, and that industry is the politics of the single most powerful government in the world – so it is hardly a shock that it attracts ferociously ambitious people, nor that such people occasionally clash. Against that backdrop, reports

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to fire numerous top generals has put America’s military between a rock and a hard place in its war against Iran. The Army has been without a chief of staff since Hegseth fired General Randy George in April; he has forced out at least three senior officers that were believed to