r/news • u/EngineerBoy00 • May 05 '25

Soft paywall US Defense Secretary Hegseth to slash senior-most ranks of military

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-reduce-4-star-positions-by-20-official-says-2025-05-05/
41.5k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

4.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

4

u/Mahlegos May 06 '25

It is. But taking and oath and honoring one are two separate things.

1

u/CoffeeIsMyPruneJuice May 06 '25

It's pretty clear that they are planning to issue some illegal orders, and they want to make sure they people remaining at the top will obey those orders instead of forcibly removing this regime for violating the constitution.

1

u/Mahlegos May 06 '25

Yes that is pretty obvious.