{"id":16743,"date":"2025-04-01T10:51:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T10:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/will-dan-caine-trumps-pick-for-joint-chiefs-chairman-be-blunt-or-hold-his-tongue\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T10:51:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T10:51:44","slug":"will-dan-caine-trumps-pick-for-joint-chiefs-chairman-be-blunt-or-hold-his-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/will-dan-caine-trumps-pick-for-joint-chiefs-chairman-be-blunt-or-hold-his-tongue\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Dan Caine, Trump\u2019s Pick for Joint Chiefs Chairman, Be Blunt or Hold His Tongue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Lt. Gen. Dan Caine\u2019s pocket-size copy of the Constitution is tattered and bound with green military tape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He carries it with him routinely, including slipping it in his flight suit when he flew fighter jets in the Air Force. He had it on him on Sept. 11, 2001, when he was the lead aviator <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/stories\/story\/senior-cia-officer-reflects-on-defending-washington-d-c-on-9-11\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">assigned to protect Washington<\/a> after hijackers slammed commercial jets into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">General Caine\u2019s loyalty to the Constitution and his reputation for adhering to ethical standards are major reasons the Senate Armed Services Committee is likely to give him a largely friendly reception on Tuesday as the members consider his nomination to become the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation\u2019s highest-ranking military position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">General Caine\u2019s writings, coupled with interviews with some who know him, paint a portrait of a modest, thoughtful and personable officer with a reputation for integrity. That sets him apart from some other high-ranking administration officials who often appear to place their fealty to the president above all else.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe has strong moral fiber,\u201d said Raj Shah, who led a high-level Defense Department unit on innovation and has known General Caine for 20 years. He added, \u201cHe is one of the most humble, principled and strategic leaders I have known.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But General Caine will still have to navigate some tough questions about whether he will give his best unvarnished military advice to President Trump or tell him what he wants to hear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe have to determine whether he has the professional skills to do the job,\u201d Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the panel\u2019s senior Democrat, said in a phone interview. \u201cBut we also need to know whether he will stand up to the president and say if something is not lawful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The hearing will be an exercise in needle-threading for the 35-year military veteran with a polished record, possibly the first of many as he tries to maintain credibility with Mr. Trump while staying true to military and ethical norms. It comes amid broad outrage over the administration\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/24\/us\/politics\/hegseth-classified-war-plans-group-chat.html\" title=\"\">careless handling of highly sensitive military plans<\/a> for last month\u2019s attacks in Yemen. Many outside experts have said the administration\u2019s top national security officials ignored rules on handling such information in ways that could have risked the safety of the American pilots involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who shared the timing and targets of imminent military strikes against Iran-backed Houthi militants over the commercial messaging app Signal, has said he did not relay classified information. Mr. Trump has dismissed the controversy as a minor fumble.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Democrats on the committee are expected to ask General Caine whether he considers the information that was shared to be classified and whether he would have advised the use of secure government channels instead of a Signal chat that inadvertently included a journalist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nonetheless, they are unlikely to press him to directly criticize the administration\u2019s actions for fear of irreparably harming his relationships with the president and Mr. Hegseth even before he takes office. They see the general as a potential guardrail against possibly rash or even illegal military actions by the Trump administration, and so want to preserve his influence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">General Caine, 56, who is stepping out of military retirement, faces a steep learning curve. By statute, anyone picked to be the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is supposed to have served as a combatant commander, as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or as the top uniformed officer of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps or Space Force \u2014 all four-star positions (General Caine retired with three). Mr. Trump has invoked a waiver to bypass that requirement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An F-16 pilot with 150 combat flight hours, General Caine has a background in highly secretive intelligence and special operations assignments that stands out from those of previous nominees. In the three years before he retired from the military in December, he was an associate director for military affairs at the C.I.A.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">General Caine has sprinkled self-insights and bits of advice in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/thecainegroup.com\/index.php\/author\/thecaine\/page\/2\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">two<\/a> <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/dancaine.net\/about\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">blogs<\/a>. Recurrent themes are his efforts to improve his communication skills, his pursuit of self-control and odes to fallen service members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of his favorite books, he wrote, is \u201cThe Daily Stoic,\u201d a 405-page treatise about the virtues of self-mastery, perseverance and wisdom. Another is \u201cStrength for Service to God and Country,\u201d a book of devotions for those in the military or public service. He also recommended \u201cThe Four-Hour Work Week\u201d by Tim Ferriss, a book on strategies to achieve one\u2019s goals with less effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His Air Force nickname, which the president is said to relish, is \u201cRazin Caine.\u201d But the lifestyle he described in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/thecainegroup.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/08\/daily-ritual\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a 2020 blog post<\/a> seems a model of discipline. He laid out a six-day workweek and this daily schedule:<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Wake up to a 4:15 a.m. alarm; spend 45 minutes over coffee in reflection and Bible study; work out for an hour; listen to a half-hour of Bloomberg News or a podcast over a protein shake; work for 11 to 12 hours; and then bed at 9 p.m.: \u201c67 degrees, dark room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He so far has eschewed public discussion of politics. Perhaps the closest he has come was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/thecainegroup.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/fred-smith-chairman-and-ceo-of-fedex-on-tariffs\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a 2018 blog post<\/a>, written during Mr. Trump\u2019s first term, about the potential impact of tariffs the president was proposing. He linked to a webcast by a corporate leader who called for free trade, describing the issue as \u201cfascinating.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump and General Caine met only once before, in late 2018, when the president visited U.S. troops in western Iraq. But the meeting eventually took on political overtones. General Caine told the president that the Islamic State was not so tough and could be defeated in a week, not two years as senior advisers predicted, Mr. Trump recounted in 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At a Conservative Political Action Conference meeting the next year, and subsequently since then, Mr. Trump has said that General Caine put on a Make America Great Again hat while meeting with him in Iraq. General Caine has told aides he has never put on a MAGA hat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His business career is another contrast with previous nominees. From 2009 to 2016, as a part-time member of the National Guard, he founded or led a string of companies, drawing partners, employees and customers from his wide network of military contacts. Most were small aviation-related firms with fewer than 25 employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The federal government hired one of his firms, Global Risk Reduction, to help put safety protocols in place at a biocontainment laboratory at Fort Detrick in Maryland. General Caine helped train lab employees in how to prevent, track, investigate and correct safety lapses, said Dr. James Lawler, the laboratory\u2019s former chief medical officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe all trusted Dan,\u201d he said. \u201cHe is the kind of leader who comes into a room and the first thing he does, usually, is admit his own faults and mistakes, and then he listens to everybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Another company the general founded, called Patriot Technologies Group, provided air surveillance and support for U.S. armed forces training exercises. A pilot and two crew members employed by the company were killed when their plane crashed in a 2010 training session in Florida. General Caine, a lieutenant colonel at the time, was in another plane during the exercise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The widows of the men who died sued the government, claiming that Air Force personnel on the ground had failed to warn the pilot of a thunderstorm that caused the plane crash. Daniel O. Rose, a lawyer who specializes in airline crash cases and who represented the widows, deposed General Caine as part of the case. He said he expected him to defend the Air Force personnel out of loyalty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI just couldn\u2019t believe it when he started talking,\u201d Mr. Rose said. \u201cHe really was calling it straight, calling the Air Force out. He really is just a stand-up guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The government ultimately settled the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">None of General Caine\u2019s business ventures made him particularly wealthy, judging by a review of his property holdings and interviews with his friends. But after he retired from the military at the end of last year, lucrative work seemed in the offing. He became a venture partner at two investment firms and an adviser to a third, led by Josh Kushner, the brother of Jared Kushner, the president\u2019s son-in law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe had been offered other military jobs, and he turned them down. He had moved on to the private sector,\u201d said Mr. Shah, the co-founder and managing partner of Shield Capital, which hired General Caine before Mr. Trump chose him as his top military adviser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe was not looking for this job,\u201d Mr. Shah said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Julie Tate<!-- --> contributed research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/01\/us\/politics\/dan-caine-joint-chiefs-chairman.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. 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