“ELIMINATING CONSIDERABLE ARTERIOSCLEROSIS,” THEN AND NOW:

Poor General George C. Marshall. If you think the SECWAR criticism is unique, it's not. Marshall had to defend his actions powerfully and without apology:

“Most of our senior officers on such duty are deadwood and should be eliminated from the service as rapidly as possible.”… pic.twitter.com/Zv3lxEiCBc

— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) April 4, 2026

Related: “The US Army’s ‘Spiritual Fitness Guide’ reads like it was written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono on a bender—not a word of encouragement for a soldier’s faith, but pages upon pages of New Age nonsense that makes Universalism sound like rational thought and really does imagine no religion:” 

So SecWar Pete Hegseth just fired Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., the US Army’s (now former) Chief of Chaplains.

I have zero insider information on this, but I have my own theories as to why it happened.

Green’s most important event as the Chief of Chaplains was to produce the…

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) April 3, 2026