{"id":34660,"date":"2025-02-28T16:28:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T16:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/ex-us-defence-chiefs-urge-congressional-hearings-on-trumps-military-firings\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T16:28:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T16:28:24","slug":"ex-us-defence-chiefs-urge-congressional-hearings-on-trumps-military-firings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/ex-us-defence-chiefs-urge-congressional-hearings-on-trumps-military-firings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-US defence chiefs urge congressional hearings on Trump\u2019s military firings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s first defence secretary James Mattis among five to express alarm at \u2018reckless\u2019 dismissals of top military figures<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/feb\/28\/donald-trump-doge-labor-unions-volodymyr-zelenskyy-us-politics-live-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Five former US defence secretaries have demanded congressional hearings on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> firings of several military commanders, including the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, saying it was done for \u201cpurely partisan reasons\u201d and weakens national security.<\/p>\n<p>The five \u2013 including James Mattis, who served as defence secretary during Trump\u2019s first presidency \u2013 wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/documents\/ccb2108a-6ae1-4a10-8ae8-30553b0e7b4a.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_4\">letter<\/a> that they were \u201cdeeply alarmed\u201d by the dismissals, which they said were \u201creckless\u201d and unjustified by operational reason.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/28\/defence-secretaries-letter-trump-firings-military\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s first defence secretary James Mattis among five to express alarm at \u2018reckless\u2019 dismissals of top military figures US politics live \u2013 latest updates Five former US defence secretaries have demanded congressional hearings on Donald Trump\u2019s firings of several military commanders, including the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, saying it was done for &#8230; <a title=\"Ex-US defence chiefs urge congressional hearings on Trump\u2019s military firings\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/ex-us-defence-chiefs-urge-congressional-hearings-on-trumps-military-firings\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ex-US defence chiefs urge congressional hearings on Trump\u2019s military firings\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}