Hegseth’s Pentagon Purge Designed to Prevent a Mutiny: Karen Kwiatkowski

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Col. added.Hegseth’s “poor leadership skills,” disrespect for service members, and “religious invocations for slaughter,” have earned him “several degrees of contempt,” and Kwiatkowski suspects that sentiments of “no confidence and dislike” are “roiling throughout the ranks.”If this affects even 10-20% of the military, that's a serious problem and the Pentagon will no longer have a fighting force it can rely on, no matter how many “yes men generals” are tapped to replace those who have been ousted, Kwiatkowski fears.“Hegseth and the generals recognize there is no trust up or down the chain of command. Hegseth believes he can command that trust through sycophants; the generals very likely prefer a more structural approach of more and better training, and better civilian leadership…which is impossible at this time,” she summed up.https://sputnikglobe.com/20260402/energy-market-could-collapse-due-to-iran-war--expert-1123932933.htmlhttps://sputnikglobe.com/20260403/hormuz-strait-is-a-strategic-bottleneck-us-cant-pry-it-open-with-military-force-expert-1123935104.htmliranisraelSputnik International feedback@sputniknews.com+74956456601MIA „Rossiya Segodnya“ 252602026Sputnik International feedback@sputniknews.com+74956456601MIA „Rossiya Segodnya“ 25260Newsen_ENSputnik International feedback@sputniknews.com+74956456601MIA „Rossiya Segodnya“ 2526019201080true19201440truehttps://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e9/06/16/1122318198_80:0:2811:2048_1920x0_80_0_0_403d9bb91e5b68afb082657ef54f9ffa.jpg19201920trueSputnik International feedback@sputniknews.com+74956456601MIA „Rossiya Segodnya“ 25260Sputnik Internationalwhy did hegseth purge generals, who did hegseth purge, is pentagon in a leadership crisiswhy did hegseth purge generals, who did hegseth purge, is pentagon in a leadership crisisHegseth’s Pentagon Purge Designed to Prevent a Mutiny: Karen Kwiatkowski15:23 GMT 03.04.2026 © AP Photo / Alex BrandonUS Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington, Sunday, June 22, 2025. { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e9/06/16/1122318198_0:0:3072:1728_640x0_80_0_0_ba907e1c3ccbb90a596a84eecb68b985.jpg", "thumbnail": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e9/06/16/1122318198_0:0:3072:1728_640x0_80_0_0_ba907e1c3ccbb90a596a84eecb68b985.jpg", "image": "https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e9/06/16/1122318198_0:0:3072:1728_640x0_80_0_0_ba907e1c3ccbb90a596a84eecb68b985.jpg" }, { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": 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Army Chief of Staff General Randy George and two other top generals signals intensifying rot in the Department amid the Iran war, former senior DoD insider-turned whistleblower Karen Kwiatkowski says.General George represented “experience in Army battlefield operations,” while general David Hodne and major general William Greene Jr had “their pulse on the readiness, and more importantly the attitudes and thinking,” of younger soldiers, Kwiatkowski told Sputnik.They see the Iran conflict as an “illegal and unneeded war,” driven by politics, ego and a foreign power (Israel), and understand “the real damage inflicted on US forces and installations” in the Middle East over the past month, the retired Air Force Lt. 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