Hegseth has ordered an in-person meeting of all high level US military command

[EricDMMiller]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/25/hegseth-generals-quantico-meeting/

This creates a stunning operational risk with the concentration of the entire senior military command structure in a single, known location, creating a catastrophic single point of failure. Any rational justification must have a goal so critical that it outweighs this immense risk.

My money is on a night of the long knives style purge, but I am prepared to consider alternatives. Getting the generals away from their command staff to prevent the possibility of institutional resistance and then disposing of them (through firing or otherwise), appears to be the most likely justification that I can think of.

 

[Grinkle]

My money is on a night of the long knives style purge

Wouldn't surprise me.

I'm at least half of the mindset that when we find out what reason for the meeting was, if we do, we'll all be saying something like "Really? He dragged everyone across the planet for THAT?"

EG maybe he wants to tell everyone that if there is a gov't shutdown any public complaints need to put all the blame on Shumer, or some critical policy position like that that can only be delivered with sufficient gravity f2f, in his FOX pundit mind.

 

[EricDMMiller]

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

A senior Pentagon correspondent has said, "I've never seen anything like this in the past 30 years. We might be going to war."



But at the same time, apparently we haven't needed to summon hundreds of generals to Quantico to go to war before?

 

[Grinkle]

Of course.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/28/trump-hegseth-speech-generals-quantico-security/

 

[EricDMMiller]

Trump addressed the generals to say that they must be prepared to attack fellow Americans and he is declaring a war against those within.

Trump claims US faces ‘invasion from within’ in address to military leaders after Hegseth declares war on diversity efforts – live

US president tells hundreds of generals and admirals in Virginia they will ‘straighten out’ US cities after defense secretary rails against ‘fat troops’

www.theguardian.com

“San Francisco and Chicago, New York, Los Angeles… We'll straighten them out one-by-one. It will be a major part for some of the people in this room. It’s a war too. It’s a war from within.”

...

“We’re under invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways, because they don’t wear uniforms,” Trump says.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Terrifying

Military should use 'dangerous cities as training grounds,' Trump says

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/government-shutdown-trump-09-30-25

 

[EricDMMiller]

You love to see it.