Ryan Grim
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Yeah, and so, Hegzeth has been consolidating power from the beginning.
You know, they've fired a whole ton of people.
It looks like
um here's again from the post um with george's ouster hegseth has remade nearly the entire joint chiefs of staff uh the only ones remaining from when hegseth took office just over a year ago are general eric smith of the marine corps and general chance saltzman head of the space force everybody else and the uh joint chiefs of staff has been has been replaced like extremely unusual um
Has there been this kind of a head change in past wars, like with Iraq-Afghanistan at the beginning?
Was there a big... No, period.
Not in peacetime or in wartime.
Purges are not really a thing in kind of U.S.
military history.
It's like Civil War when Lincoln's pissed off at all generals.
We can get Sager on here to run through it, but it's not a thing.
It's a much more...
methodical hierarchical like orderly system than than even in Trump won but Trump is clearly bringing Trump energy to the to the Pentagon and
Yeah.
And I think, Griffin, you were referring to Trump apparently polling his advisers on whether he should fire Tulsi Gabbard.
Yes.
DNI or do not invite is as they call her, I believe.
If Tulsi.
Yeah.
Go ahead, Emily.