NATO Commander Warns of Damage Trump Is Doing to U.S. Alliances

The former Air Force Secretary publicly warning about Donald Trump, Pete Heggsett and the rest of the Trump regime destroying the United States military.

“Delta Force leaders mocking Pete Heggsett for his behavior, former top state department officials,”

publicly warning about Donald Trump, Pete Heggsett and the Trump regime's destruction of the United States military. With all of that going on, what's happening inside the Pentagon, while they are hunting for leakers who inform the press that the United States military is being destroyed and that the military ran out of weapons in the catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran, including Patriot Interceptors, Thad Interceptors, and other weapons, the New York Times reporting,

in Major League Hunt, Pentagon gives polygraph tests to joint staff members about 50 people were tested and unparalleled inquiry that comes in the wake of news reports about the war with the Iran and the U.S. military's diminished stocks of munitions. We'll get to that in a moment.

“But I want to start first with the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and retired U.S. Navy”

Admiral James DeVretis, his up-ed in Bloomberg. Here's what he writes. Heggsett has turned the army

into a rudderless ship. The sudden departure of the Secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll, Stavretis writes, following months of tensions with Secretary of Defense, Pete Heggsett is a serious blow to American security worse. His resignation follows the forcing out of several top army generals, including Chief of Staff Randy George, Vice Chief James Mingus, and highly regarded combat commander of the U.S. Army, Chris Donnayu, who himself was part of

Delta Force. The leadership of the U.S. Army is being eviscerated right in the middle of the war with the Iran. Driscoll was widely admired and supported by the top army leadership. He had

“taken the leading role and efforts to modernize the service using the lessons learned on the battle”

fields of Ukraine, which Heggsett did not want to happen. Heggsett cared more about injecting testosterone and doing testosterone tests and his view of the warrior ethos than modernizing the United States military. Stavretis goes on to write. While positions are not highly visible to the general public, I know how vital their role is to maintaining a healthy department of defense. I spent two tours on the staffs of two different secretaries of the Navy. One from each party and he goes on

to talk about the importance of these positions, and then he goes on to say at the risk of mixing a nautical metaphor, the army is now effectively rudderless underheggs it. While the uniform deputies, political undersecretaries and assistant secretaries will do their best and guide the

massive 1.2 million person department, active duty national guard reserve and civilian,

with its $200 billion budget, the army is going to drift in terms of purpose and effectiveness. There was a troubling report this week that Christopher Linnev, the acting vice chairman ordered the army unit in Europe to stop specializing in drone warfare. The challenges are magnified by broader personnel problems, with no Senate conferred permanent army chief of staff or vice chief of staff, chairman of the Joint Chiefs Dan Kane doesn't have anyone at the war council table,

with the full authority and gravitas to contribute a ground combat perspective. Hexith may have individual reasons for the departures of so many senior leaders across the services. He has also forced out the chief of naval operations, Admiral Lisa Franchetti, and Secretary of the Navy, John Fellan, among many others, and he has sacked morale by denying the investments of younger officers who have been selected for promotion to one star admiral or

general, and we note this is because they were black or women or Hispanic, and that was one of the main reasons why hexith did not promote them. This damage to a major department in the middle of combat operations is stunning. Clearly hexith needs to nominate a stable team of new army leaders, get them confirmed by Congress, and give them steady support. He simply cannot try to run the massive department himself. That is too heavy a lift for a secretary of defense even in peacetime.

In the military, big lessons can be learned from smaller examples. When I was a Commodore of a squadron

First, it was a young division officer, then a senior department had a season master chief. He had reasons for each dismissal, but they seemed increasingly thin as the weeks went on. I was displeased but supported him as I was expected to do within the Navy's personnel system. He eventually started laying the groundwork to fire his supply officer, someone I knew well and respected. I called the captain to my flagship and said it in a

“shell. This is a disturbing pattern that is unsustainable. You need to work with the team you are”

given. Not simply fire the ones you can seem to work with the bottom line is that the next

person leaving your ship will be you. He took the advice and went on to a successful tour. The same lesson applies to the army. It deserves not just high quality leadership, but also steady and consistent leadership. Our soldiers deserve it and our nation needs it. And then you had a top state department official, former Trump State Department official and GOP strategist who said it's been absolutely shocking how the United States has been exposed

for a lack of plan of engagement. And a lack of a plan either to win or exit this war. We are paying the price for a cabinet of significance. The strategy has been rinse and repeat whether it's rhetorical or kinetic action. Matthew Bartlett, a Republican strategist and former State Department appointee in the first Trump administration said it's been absolutely shocking to watch. Then you had former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall. Here's how he described it on CNN.

The Higgsith Trump regime sick offense. Here play this clip. Zero assessment of what's happening inside the Pentagon right now. In a word, it's dysfunctional. The Secretary and I've worked with and had a chance to work for maybe a dozen servers. Secretary has a defense. He's doing act of harm to the Department of Defense. It's not pass. It's act of harm. You mentioned some of the things. All the firings of general officers

“about 25 now, I think, removing people from promotion lists. Both of these are totally unprecedented.”

The climate of fear that's been created is very palpable. It's affecting everybody in Hollywood. It's affecting the quality of advice that's being given. People are afraid to say something that's not going to be approved up. The witchcraft, if you will, for people who are supposedly woke. I think it's got a lot of people scared. Even in the first Trump administration when emphasizing D.E.I. was part of the policy, people would make speeches about it and now they're being punished for that.

So it's a very tough climate to work in. I don't think senior leaders are getting good advice. And people are coping as best they can. And the things I mentioned in the op-ed are some of the coping mechanisms that they're using to try to adopt in this situation. It's not good for the country. What? More from Frank Kendall Wright here, who was the Air Force Secretary in the Biden administration on Secretary Driscoll's resignation here, play this clip. I spent 20 years in fact on.

It has always been that way until this administration. Do you worry about the impact it has

long-term? Oh, absolutely. Okay, and four years of this is going to do enormous damage. It's going to take several years or decade to go repair this and restore the type of system that we have had to respond. When we listen to Secretary Hexeth, I mean, he often has the same kind of mantra that he repeats. Some people might hear that and agree with it. Some people might say, well, I like that he's doing that. The concerns though that we seem to be hearing and are reporting

and from Secretary Driscoll himself is that it's impacting what he believes the military should be focused on. What he believes the Secretary Hexeth should be focused on. Right now, in our

“competitions strategically, brain powers just as important as how big somebody's biceps are.”

We need people with intellectual capital just as much as we need people in physically capable. He's over-emphasizing this kind of, you know, a broad thing with the testosterone thing you mentioned as well as many other things. That's not what the Secretary of Defense should be working, worrying about. What he should be worrying about is not getting us into a conflict. We have no obvious way out of. It isn't going to compensate the things that we got into. We're clinking at

absolute disaster in Iran right now. We went into this thing with very poor assumptions about how we'll play out. Risk that we're well understood and prevent any other prior Secretary of Defense or President from doing this were ignored and we went into this conflict we now have no way out. We need leadership that doesn't do that sort of thing and the other things that are kind of window dressing that Secretary Hitchcock seems to be focused on are not things that a

Secretary of Defense should be worrying about. The professional military will take care of standards

of grooming, physical fitness and all those things. They're very good at that and they always have

been. He doesn't need to worry about that but frankly, in this case, I don't think you know

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And then more from Kendall right here. Here's what he had to say. And this is the former Air Force

Secretary. Here play this clip. President is getting an honest assessment of what is going into the run right now. That's a great question. I don't know. There are reports that when Secretary of Justice Cole was leaving. He went to the President and he told him about the situation in the Army. Service secretaries like myself and now Secretary of Justice Cole are responsible for organizing training and equipping the services they're responsible for. They don't do operational

things. They're more about providing forces to other people who do operations. But in this case, a President probably had no idea what the status of his Army was until Secretary of Justice Cole came in and informed him. If that's an indicator, it may well be that the President doesn't understand how this war is going. That's hard for me to believe because we've been at it for six months now. And some things are blatantly obvious from the way it is all played out.

Yeah. Do you see an ending to it in sight in this moment? I don't right now. I was a little more optimistic a month or so ago. I thought we might work out of the MOU that we had. And I didn't think we were going to resolve the nuclear program thing. I thought we could get that straight open and go into protracted negotiations from there. That fell apart. So now we're in a situation where Iran quite frankly seems to be closed

controlling their timeline. We're doing intermittent engagements, skirmishes kind of lower levels of violence, which is better than the massive things we were doing before. But nobody seems to be

“ready to sit down with the negotiation table and get this thing resolved. That's what we need.”

And Iran's a very large extent right now. It seems to be they've already taken an enormous economic hit. They seem to be able to sort that. We've pulled back on how much we're doing militarily. We don't have great options there. I don't see an easy way out at this point. Now that brings me to Delta Force. Here is what's being reported by the Daily Beast. Army heroes humiliating Nickname for Pete Heggsett is leaked. In his effort to transform himself

from a misogynistic loser booser into the man running the world's most powerful military

Heggsett wrote to 2024 book The War on Warriors. The 46-year-old secretary of wars now waging a war on America's most distinct distinguished warriors. As he seeks to create a cult within a cult at the Pentagon. Generals who want to remain in Heggsett's military must be blindly loyal to Donald Trump and also be a sick event to the preening faint tough guy that is Heggsett who was sideline in the national guard. Heggsett's nickname in the Pentagon is no tab peat because while in uniform

he had none of the patches such as Ranger that signifies special combat skills. And as he fires one senior military leader after another who actually is what he pretends to be the former Fox News cause makes clear the full irony of his book subtitle behind the betrayal of the men who keep us free. And it goes on to talk about how the disgraceful dimension of Heggsett betrayal were manifest last Thursday. At the retirement ceremony of General Christopher Donniu,

which was held at Fort Bragg North Carolina inside the compound of the first special forces operational detachment Delta known to the public as Delta Force, but to those who serve simply

“as Delta or the unit. This secret determinedly low profile commandow out. It has been called”

Seal Team 6 without the book deal. That compares to a defense secretary who had a book deal

how within Delta Force one you had Donniu who comes from a Stinton Delta Force and was a commander there in as well. But they're out there mocking peat heggsett's behavior and they have nicknames for him and they know that heggsett is an absolute loser. Now with that said, I do want to show you as well this portion of a speech would seem very apt today from the retired US Navy admiral former Supreme Allied commander of NATO James de Vredis. He gave this speech in 2016 before the United

“States Naval Institute. This was his keynote that he gave right here. Watch it, I think this is so critical”

as he talks about the cause of World War I in World War II. Mind you, this speech was in 2016, but we're seeing Trump and Heggsett do the exact things he warned about back in 2016, which were the lessons that we should have learned from World War I in World War II. Let's play it. So this collapsed, this failure of security goes on and on. And we ought to think about other battles from that war. This, of course, is Midway, Ewo Jima. As we look back on the 20th century,

World War I, World War II, are the salient events for the people in this hall here. And as security professionals, which is what we all are, we ought to ask ourselves what went wrong. Why did we fail to deliver security? Why were 60 million people killed in these two world wars? My argument is that we tried to create security by building walls. Think about it. Maginolai, Schleefen Plan, Iron Curtain, Bamboo Curtain, most iconically, the Berlin Wall.

The 20th century was about building security through building walls. What work? Will not work in the 21st century. In this world, we need to build bridges, connections, and think about how to move around walls, which I would argue, Navy's Marine Corps, Coast Guards, can be very, very effective at doing. Where did I develop this theory? A lot of it came out of this terrible day.

I would imagine a handful of people here shared that day with me in the Pentagon. This was my office, that little red circle. I was a newly selected one star in '81.

In the irony of that moment has always struck me. Here I was behind every wall you can imagine.

I was guarded by the five massive walls of the Pentagon, by the strongest military on earth,

“in the capital of the richest country on the planet. Was I safe behind all those walls?”

Obviously not. And as I kind of stumbled out that day onto that grassy area in the front of the photograph, tried to help in a small way, watch the real heroes of that day, the first responder show up. It occurred to me that walls are not going to protect us in this turbulent 21st century. And that brings me to what Pete Higgs at this focused on right now, hunting for leakers within the Pentagon, the New York Times reporting. In major leak,

Pentagon gives polygraph tests to joint staff members. This New York Times article describes how US government investigators have taken the extraordinary step of subjecting roughly 50 members of the U.S. military's joint staff to polygraph tests over leaks to journalists, including about how the

Iran War has created a shortage of critical munitions, according to officials briefed on the move.

The investigators asked military officers and civilian employees on the joint staff if they disclose classified information to members of the press and about whether they provided information about diminished U.S. munition stocks. The polygraph tests were conducted in August,

“after a flurry of news reports that detailed the diminished stocks of crucial munitions.”

Between 1,500 and 2,000 officers and officials work for the joint staff, which coordinates operations, policy and war plans with combatant commanders around the world. Then the article goes on to say "Rear Admiral Donald J. Grunner," a retired top judge advocate general for the Navy from 2000

to 2000 in two says, "I've never seen polygraphs employed this broadly or at this seniority level

in my experience, it is unprecedented." Yeah, that's the Pete Higgsith way, engaging in this

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