Re Hegseth calling secret meeting of Generals from around world

[orangecrush]

Last edited Thu Sep 25, 2025, 05:49 PM - Edit history (4)

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is causing headaches after demanding that top U.S. military officials descend on Virginia from around the world for a meeting.

Hegseth, who wants to go by his preferred moniker “secretary of war,” has called for hundreds of generals and admirals to attend, even though he has not specified the meeting’s purpose and scheduled it at extremely short notice, according to The Washington Post.

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“People are very concerned. They have no idea what it means,” one person familiar with the matter told the Post.

“You don’t call GOFOs [General Officers/Flag Officers] leading their people and the global force into an auditorium outside D.C. and not tell them why/what the topic or agenda is,” another unnamed source added.





"The Post suggested that the meeting, which comes just ahead of a looming government shutdown, could touch on plans to shift homeland defense to the nation’s top priority, replacing a years-long suggestions that China poses the greatest national security risk to the U.S."


https://www.thedailybeast.com/pete-hegseth-ignites-new-pentagon-chaos-with-secret-meeting-order/

Perhaps we should be concerned?

[rampartd]

1. purge

[IA8IT]

2. Serious shit going down everywhere

[underpants]

5. Saddam taped his purge of the Baath party

Played it on state tv and passed around thousands of VHS tapes of it.

[rampartd]

11. i've been expecting krasnov to liquidate the dem senators and congresscritters

meanwhile his people are knifing each other

[tanyev]

21. I remember seeing a clip of that. Absolutely chilling.

😟

[dalton99a]

32. +1

[CincyDem]

3. Providing the administration's current interpretation of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. Agree or resign. n/t

[rampartd]

8. [ptential military leaders of a rebellion will not be allowed to resign.

they will be neutralized.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. To answer your Q, we should be concerned. . . . nt

[Lovie777]

6. Drunk....................

[in2herbs]

7. People will be angry at losing their jobs bc of govt. shutdown - f45 has top brass corralled in VA so that when f45

declares martial law to "quell" the anger of Americans he already has his military replacements in place.

[usonian]

9. The enemy within wants to defend from his enemies within.

And, being away from their stations, leave subordinates to defend against

"The Enemy Pu-Tin"

[spanone]

10. coup d'tat?

[UTUSN]

12. beat me to it

[Totally Tunsie]

14. Pre-announced?

And, if it's called by the party in power, who are they overthrowing? You talking Hogsbreath overthrowing Chump?

[orangecrush]

24. Insurrection act

[LastDemocratInSC]

13. It will be like Sadam Hussein's big meeting

when he named disloyal Baath party members, asked them to stand, and then had them escorted away to oblivion.

[Irish_Dem]

15. Loyalty Oath time?

You don't need to bring everyone in for a in person meeting to announce
policy changes.

[TommyT139]

23. Is the DOD

...one of the fed depts where staffers are going under the lie detector?

That and a loyalty oath would make short work.

This reminds me of when companies want to do mass layoffs, they call an off-site meeting to deliver the news. Then if they are allowed to return to their cubes, they're given a cardboard box, and ten supervised minutes to gather belongings.

[Irish_Dem]

25. Yes good points. Lie detecter test, loyalty, and purges.

Yes generals and admirals fly in from all over the world.
If they don't take the oath, pass the lie detector test, their offices
will be vacated and they will not return to them.

It is possible while they are in DC with Hegseth, their offices, computers,
etc will be searched.

I hope they all cleaned out everything before they left.

[TommyT139]

38. I recall firings from the first term

...where the former employees were stranded away from home on work-related trips, and had to find their own way home.

Kinda tough to do that if your residence had been on a base in a far-away country.

A particularly chilling detail is that it's anyone with even one star. Who's left minding the fort? (Anyone seen "Big Balls" lately?)

[Irish_Dem]

40. I recall one military officer had her base housing confiscated?

A black female officer?

Maybe I am totally misremembering this.

And yes, there is no one minding the store.
Second string is in charge with no official power to make any decisions.

If an enemy strikes now it is very bad.

[johnnyfins]

16. We should be very, very concerned.

This movie only gets worse, y'all. Stay safe.

[Alpeduez21]

17. It's a swear fealty or be fired immediately meeting is my guess

[orangecrush]

19. This is a high risk move

Removing all that brass from posts around the world.

Who knows what Trump and Hegseth are trying to pull.

[Alpeduez21]

30. Nothing good

[lostnfound]

37. That might be the point of it. Hegseth is one of the Putin-puppets, isn't he?

Or maybe just getting ready for their big “Christian” war in the Mideast, whatever that’s called.

[Liberal In Texas]

42. That's my guess. All either loyal or replaced by toadies.

The Orange Idiot wants to make sure when he tries to install himself as a full-blown dictator there won't be any military trying to remove him from power. He knows full-well what happened in Brazil and South Korea.

[moondust]

18. Venezuela invasion?

Monday:

The Pentagon has deployed a command-and-control ship for special operations forces near the coast of Venezuela...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220666165



Attention hound wants to show everybody that he's the BIG BAD BOSS? (Claire McCaskill just suggested that it's performative and General Hertling seemed to agree.)



ETA: I'm sure he has secure communications with all of them so why waste all the time and money and security making them all gather in one place?

[orangecrush]

20. Insurrection act

[drray23]

26. I dont think it has to do with Venezuela.

He would not need to call the generals and admirals in Europe or Asia for example, only the central command in charge of this part of the world.
I think its more ominous. They are staging a coup and want to assess who is loyal and who is not.

[MerryBlooms]

22. Something is in the air, and it's the corrupt stench of this administration

[Skittles]

27. can you even imagine

all those accomplished people being assembled by that freaking assclown

[PuraVidaDreamin]

28. PLEASE remember your oath to

Protect from enemies foreign and domestic. UPHOLD the CONSTITUTION!

[MrWowWow]

29. The Boys Are Back in Town

[SamuelTheThird]

31. This should be a bigger story

[BigmanPigman]

33. My fantasy...

...sort of based on the film Some Like It Hot....

tRump will be the guest of honor and he will think that this show of power is a belated, beautiful birthday surprise to make up for the failed June 14th B-Day military parade with a few squeaky tanks.

The band plays "Hail To The Chief" and they all yell, "Surprise!". That's when they really surprise him...bye bye Donny.

[doc03]

34. Its preperation for the Insurection Act and Martial Law. Trump has been telegraphing his

intent to attack whoever he claims are the left wing lunatics since Kirk's death. Maybe he will use the
government shutdown as the reason.

[Bmoboy]

35. Decapitation of Command and Control

It's a basic military tactic.

The question is for what purpose.

Insurrection Act
Posse Comitatus
Treason
...

[Swede]

36. Can't he just do it on Signal?

Oh wait, never mind.

[Totally Tunsie]

39. Chump better pull out his Sharpie and get ready to do some rerouting for next week.

It could be a crapshoot to determine who gets to Quantico first: His hundreds of generals and military personnel vs. Hurricane Imelda. It's still early, but tonight's local Charleston, SC, forecasts are prepping Charleston for a possible Imelda visit on Monday or Tuesday. Depending on direction and velocity, Charleston to Quantico won't be a major gap to cover. Is that the plan? Invite them all to Quantico to be wiped out by a natural disaster?

I've always contended that God is a Democrat.

[Takket]

41. A lot of possibilities. None of them good

1. He intends to decapitate the entire military leadership and replace them all with MAGA loyalists similar to DOJ.

2. He plans on reassigning them to domestic roll in a continued effort to turn the military against the American people.

3. A massive foreign invasion is planned. Possible to a place like Venezuela.

4. He wants to show them his tattoos.

Sure 4 is kind of sarcastic but when you have an idiot like this running the military something like this is also a possibility.

[milestogo]

45. I think its something domestic.

Kill the Democrats.

[haele]

46. Loyalty Oath and/or reduction in flag positions.

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Remember, *rump and Hegseth have both complained there's too many stars in the military..."We won WWII with only a dozen or so Generals and Admirals according to the History Channel!"
Hegseth thinks he only needs 100 loyal flag officers to control his "Department of War"; he knows he can't control 800.
On edit. The Project 2025 plan for the military is to "strengthen it" through privatization, "just in time" contracted logistics - and conscripted forces. Like third world countries do.
The "Professional Military" will be run like a more heavily armed mercenary policing force that will eventually use AI, unmanned platforms, and specialized combat forces to enforce Nationalist Hegomony.
Because to enforce an Authoritarian regime, the amount of people that have autonomy and privilege needs to be small...

[Hotler]

43. It would be a good chance for all of them to leverage their military oath to arrest him as a demoestic enemy

and for attacks against the constitution. Then stand up to the orange convict and take back our country. Show some gumption. Show some profiles in courage.

[orangecrush]

44. Don't see that happening

But it might put some wheels in motion in Congress, even among Republicans.

[Arazi]

47. Congressional Republicans will never challenge anything this administration does. Ever.

That’s just a fantasy thinking they’re going to remember their oaths.

They’re 100% all in on the fascist takeover