A raft of top and mid-level Pentagon officials plans to call for the removal of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Since May, a group of Department of Defense (DOD) personnel, made up of officials from every branch save the Coast Guard, has quietly circulated drafts of a letter letting “the American public know this guy has no clue what he’s doing,” as one of those staff members put it to the Daily Mail Wednesday.
Three officials described the letter’s complaints about politicized managerial decisions, dysfunction across multiple divisions, poor morale among both military and civilian staff, and an atmosphere of paranoia fostered by Hegseth’s alleged drive to stamp out dissent and plug leaks in the department.
An additional point of discontent has been Hegseth’s emphasis on optics, including his installation of a makeup studio at DOD headquarters and regular photo ops of himself working out with troops.
“He has branded himself the epitome of his so-called ‘warrior ethos’ that he’s always talking about,” one person put it to the Mail, adding they felt this had turned the Pentagon into “a cross between a sweat lodge and WWE.”
Others took issue with Hegseth’s reluctance to heed the advice of senior service members and civilian staff on operational matters, citing the decision to send roughly 4,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles during last month’s protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“Nobody in the building thought that was a wise idea,” another staff...
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