Posted on 07/03/2026 5:20:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
CQ Brown, who was fired as Trump’s top general, questioned the president’s handling of the armed forces
CQ Brown, the retired general forced out of his post as the nation’s top military officer last year, has provided his most direct critique of the Trump administration’s handling of the U.S. military, questioning the deployment of troops in U.S. cities and warning against tainting the armed forces’ service with politics.
In an essay published Friday with two co-authors, Brown cautioned that sending the military into American cities for “politically contentious missions” like fighting crime risked compromising its traditionally apolitical role and diverting it from its combat mission.
His essay in Foreign Affairs magazine followed an appearance the previous week when he voiced concerns about the Pentagon’s moves to strike officers from military promotion lists and push high-ranking personnel into retirement.
“What is starting to happen now, it is not about merit,” Brown said at a discussion of civil-military relations hosted by the Aspen Institute. “All of these people who are being removed are very well experienced.”
His comments came as panelists at the discussion addressed efforts by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his aides to remove officers from promotion lists and push others toward retirement, such as Gen. Chris Donahue, who officially relinquished his post Thursday as the top Army officer in Europe after the Pentagon downgraded his command.
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I think he meant re-patriotized.
A guy who bitches gets fired and complains about it. Wow, what a surprise. Whatever happened to being a man and shutting up about it?
That a-hole general had already politicized the military.
I’m surprised he has waited this long to start accusing the Trump Administration of doing what every single administration always does. I recall him as coming right out and saying he wanted to push as many white military officers out of the armed forces as he could possibly do.
DEI and slandering of any critics was his thing.
“””Brown cautioned that sending the military into American cities for “politically contentious missions” like fighting crime risked compromising its traditionally apolitical role”””
I guess DEI and transgender surgery are not political according to Brown.
Exactly, him and Brandon.
The country is a lot better off without the DEI phony, kudos to Hegseth if he can clean out the military of trannys, LGBTQ and unqualified so called officers.
I did not like that guy, from the first moment I saw him. There was just something about him, that rubbed me the wrong way.
Butt hurt General!
It needed change, badly. We had men sitting around in dresses and skirts? Not enough eye wash for that sickening crap and especially in our military. DEI is now dead. Thank you Pete Hegseth!
Remember when the WSJ was a conservative voice?
That’s what Obama did.
“””Remember when the WSJ was a conservative voice?””””
Yes, I was a daily reader of the WSJ from 1970 until the mid 1990’s.
It is being de-politicized. Obama and Biden did everything they could to politicize the U.S. military.
The same mindset that cannot answer the question What Is A Woman
Probably cannot answer What Is A Man
Real men just go get another job.
Those are our jets now
Streisand Effect.
A General welcoming men into the army who have mutilated their genitals to the point they cannot deploy without hormones and antibiotics is not political but firing that sumbitch is?
Charlie Brown What a Clown.
The general who saw racism behind every blade of grass?
The fracking POS who has a full pay pension and getting paid by the MIC.
FU Charlie Brown
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