Operational suicide? Inside the military revolt against a ground war in Iran

The dismissal that tells the story Gen. Randy George, the US Army’s Chief of Staff, was removed from his post by War  Secretary Pete Hegseth and ordered to retire immediately last week. Ostensibly, the sacking seemed like one more entry on a long list of Pentagon house cleanings. It was not. George, a four-star infantry officer, had served more than four decades in uniform, with combat deployments in the Gulf War, the Iraq War, and Afghanistan. He was precisely the general you want advising a president contemplating his most consequential military decision: whether to invade Iran or not. It was no coincidence that his ouster followed the President’s address on Iran by a single day. By telegraphing intensified strikes and […]