A former senior U.S. Army commander has warned that President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are politicizing the upper ranks of the U.S. military in a manner that "looks a whole lot like a 1940s Stalin problem inside the American military," drawing a direct comparison to the Soviet dictator's purges of senior officers.
Speaking in an interview with The Guardian, Maj Gen Paul Eaton, who led infantry forces and later oversaw the rebuilding of Iraq's military after the 2003 invasion, said there is "an active effort to politicize the armed forces" that is unmatched in recent U.S. history, adding that the consequences could be long-lasting and difficult to reverse.
