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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth fired two more Army Generals on Thursday after he ousted Army Chief of Staff General Randy George.

General George served in the role under Biden’s Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

“General Randy A. George will be retiring from his position as the 41st Chief of Staff of the Army effective immediately,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said.

 

“The Department of War is grateful for General George’s decades of service to our nation. We wish him well in his retirement,” Parnell said.

Hegseth has not released his own statement on the latest shakeup at the Pentagon. 

Later Thursday, the Washington Post reported that Hegseth also ousted two more senior Army Generals.

The Washington Post reported:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked the Army’s top officer to step down and retire, defense officials said Thursday, an extraordinary move amid the war with Iran and the latest in a series of clashes between the Pentagon chief and the service’s senior leadership.

Gen. Randy George had been expected to hold the job of Army chief of staff for more than another year, until the fall of 2027, and complete what is typically a four-year assignment as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But Hegseth decided to go in another direction, representatives for the defense secretary said.

Two other Army generals were removed along with George, said two defense officials, who like some others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the shake-up.

They are Gen. David Hodne, who became the head of the service’s Training and Transformation Command in October, and Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., the chief of Army chaplains.

With George’s ouster, Hegseth has remade nearly the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff, a panel of senior military officers at the Pentagon that advises both the president and the secretary. The only ones remaining from when Hegseth took office in January 2025 are Gen. Eric M. Smith, commandant of the Marine Corps, and Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, head of the Space Force.

The latest shakeup at the Pentagon comes as President Trump announced the Iran war is winding down.

“We are on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly, very shortly,” Trump said in Wednesday night’s speech.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/hegseth-ousts-two-more-army-generals/

 

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UANI....

 

United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI): A Low-Key Yet Effective Lobby—Not as Private as It Seems

BY VOLTAIRE NETWORK | 28 MARCH 2026

 

United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is a US-based organization founded in 2008 by two former US ambassadors to the United Nations, Mark Wallace and Richard Holbrooke. It began by calling on all New York hotels to boycott Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to the United Nations. Subsequently, it spearheaded campaigns to pressure companies, such as the French automaker Renault, to cease investing in Iran.

In 2013, UANI began receiving substantial donations from Las Vegas casino owners Sheldon and Miriam Adelson. The organization then launched the Maritime Intelligence Network and Rogue Vessel Analysis (MINERVA), a satellite monitoring system for imports and exports to and from Iran. It also manages the Iran Business Registry (IBR), which monitors international companies doing business with Iran. Democrat Senator Joe Lieberman became its president from 2015 until his death in 2024, and enforced the US embargo against the country.

On March 23, 2015, the US government withdrew a lawsuit filed by a Greek shipowner against UANI on the grounds of "state secrecy." The case, which concerned the operations of MINERVA, was therefore never brought to trial.

In 2019, UANI invited representatives of the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) to its congress. Iran then placed UANI on its list of terrorist organizations. The People’s Mujahedin soon revealed information about Iran’s military nuclear program, all of which was subsequently refuted.

Today, UANI’s presidents are Jeb Bush (brother of former US President Georges W. Bush) and Mark Wallace, who remains in his position. Its board of directors includes former director of Mossad intelligence Colonel Zohar Palti. former Director of Political Planning at the State Department Ambassador Dennis Ross; former Director of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) August Hanning; former Chief of the Defence Staff of the British Army General Graeme Lamb; former Chair of the British Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones; the academic Walter Russell Mead, a systemic opponent of Professors Walt and Mearsheimer ; and, of course, Roger Noriega and Otto Reich, who were key figures in the Iran-Contra affair.

Until his appointment as US Secretary of War on January 25, 2025, Pete Hegseth was an advisor to the UANI, alongside former Director of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove and former Director of Mossad Meir Dagan.

This is the editorial from our paywalled "Voltaire, international newsletter", n°168. 

https://www.voltairenet.org/article224070.html

 

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