{"id":8412,"date":"2025-02-24T09:19:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T09:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trumps-frustration-with-generals-led-to-picking-dan-caine-for-joint-chiefs-chairman\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T09:19:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T09:19:48","slug":"trumps-frustration-with-generals-led-to-picking-dan-caine-for-joint-chiefs-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trumps-frustration-with-generals-led-to-picking-dan-caine-for-joint-chiefs-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Frustration With Generals Led to Picking Dan Caine for Joint Chiefs Chairman"},"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\">By late last week, President Trump had decided to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and replace him with one of two very different candidates, according to two administration officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One was Gen. Michael E. Kurilla, a hard-charging Army four-star general who oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East, one of the Pentagon\u2019s highest-profile assignments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The other was a little-known retired three-star Air Force officer<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/21\/us\/politics\/dan-caine-trump-joint-chiefs.html\" title=\"\">, Dan Caine<\/a>, with an unorthodox career path that included time as a fighter pilot, the top military liaison to the C.I.A. and an Air National Guard officer who founded a regional airline in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump and General Caine met for an hour at the White House on Feb. 14. The president largely made up his mind during a meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday, aides said.<\/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\">And in a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114044712489265353\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">message on social media<\/a> the next evening, Mr. Trump announced that he had picked General Caine, calling him \u201can accomplished pilot, national security expert, successful entrepreneur, and a \u2018warfighter\u2019 with significant interagency and special operations experience.\u201d<\/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\">The decision, part of<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>an extraordinary <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/21\/us\/politics\/trump-fires-cq-brown-pentagon.html\" title=\"\">purge<\/a> at the Pentagon, resulted from intense deliberations over the past two weeks that were tightly held within a small group of senior administration officials, including Mr. Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance and Michael Waltz, the national security adviser, the officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal discussions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Mr. Trump\u2019s first term, he initially seemed to seek a close association with the military\u2019s senior leaders, whom he frequently referred to as \u201cmy generals.\u201d That soon gave way to frustration with them as he came to regard them as disloyal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The president\u2019s deep skepticism prompted him to pass over the more obvious choices, like General Kurilla, to replace General Brown and to pluck General Caine from relative obscurity. His choice, people familiar with his thinking said, was based in part on General Caine\u2019s lack of clear association with the Biden administration and in part on a brief encounter with the general in Iraq six years ago that left Mr. Trump convinced he had the kind of can-do attitude the president sees as making the ideal military officer.<\/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\">In recent years, Mr. Trump has publicly praised General Caine for telling him during that visit to Iraq that the Islamic State could be defeated far more quickly than more senior advisers had suggested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now their rekindled relationship will be tested not only by national security challenges like the war in Ukraine and a rising military threat from China, but also by whether General Caine can live up to Mr. Trump\u2019s expectations of loyalty without politicizing the deliberately apolitical job of providing his best military advice to the commander in chief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has fixated on the position of the Joint Chiefs chairman since 2019, when he picked Gen. Mark A. Milley, General Brown\u2019s predecessor. It was a decision the president came to regret.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The president saw General Milley as a grandstander and a traitor. General Milley had publicly apologized for walking with Mr. Trump across Lafayette Square for a photo op after the area had been cleared of peaceful demonstrators following the death of George Floyd in May 2020. The president had asked General Milley why he was not proud that he had accompanied \u201cyour president,\u201d and it rankled Mr. Trump that the general swore allegiance to the Constitution, not to him. Their relationship was never the same.<\/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\">\u201cTrump likes his generals up until the point he doesn\u2019t anymore,\u201d John R. Bolton, the national security adviser in Mr. Trump\u2019s first term, said in an interview.<\/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\">After Mr. Trump was elected to a second term, word soon spread that he would replace General Brown, a decorated F-16 fighter pilot who in October 2023 became only the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/29\/us\/politics\/general-cq-brown-joint-chiefs.html\" title=\"\">second African-American to serve as chairman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After Mr. Hegseth was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/01\/24\/us\/pete-hegseth-defense-secretary-vote?searchResultPosition=1#pete-hegseth-defense-secretary-trump\" title=\"\">narrowly confirmed<\/a> as defense secretary last month, that likelihood became a near certainty, administration officials said. Mr. Hegseth had previously <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/22\/us\/politics\/trump-cq-brown-george-floyd.html\" title=\"\">said General Brown should be fired<\/a> because of what he called a \u201cwoke\u201d focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military. Mr. Hegseth also questioned whether the general was promoted because of his race, despite his 40 years of service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Several weeks ago, the search for a new chairman began in earnest, administration officials. Adm. Samuel J. Paparo Jr., the head of U.S. forces in the Indo-Pacific, was briefly considered, among several other initial candidates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the list of finalists quickly shortened to General Kurilla and General Caine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On paper and in conventional thinking, General Kurilla seemed to have the leg up. He was meeting regularly with Mr. Trump and other top national security aides to discuss military priorities in the Middle East. Moreover, General Kurilla, whose tenure at Central Command is expected to wrap up in the next few months, had expressed interest in the job, several current and former military officials said. In the end, General Kurilla seemed too similar to the officers whom Mr. Trump had soured on, aides said. <\/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\">General Caine, on the other hand, had retired at the end of December after completing the final job in his military career \u2014 as the Pentagon\u2019s liaison to the C.I.A. \u2014 and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/shieldcap.com\/announcement\/shield-capital-welcomes-dan-razin-caine-as-venture-partner\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">joined Shield Capital<\/a>, a firm in Burlingame, Calif., specializing in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">General Caine, 56, who graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1990 with a degree in economics, became an F-16 pilot \u2014 as his father had been \u2014 and was the lead aviator assigned <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\">to protect Washington on Sept. 11, 2001<\/a>, after Qaeda hijackers slammed commercial jets into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His career after that followed an unusual trajectory, as he parlayed one opportunity into another, picking up valuable new skills at each stop as well broadening his vast network of contacts. He was a White House fellow at the Agriculture Department and a counterterrorism specialist on the White House\u2019s Homeland Security Council under President George W. Bush. He served in several highly secretive intelligence and special operations assignments, some in the United States and some overseas, all rare for an Air National Guard officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As a part-time Guard officer, General Caine was a co-founder of RISE Air, a regional airline, and managed other private businesses, according to his <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dan-caine\/details\/experience\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn page<\/a> and interviews with friends and former colleagues. In his C.I.A. job, he was keenly interested in the intersection of technology and national security, and kept close tabs on American companies that sold cutting-edge technology to Ukraine in its fight against Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But what put him on Mr. Trump\u2019s radar was the president\u2019s short visit to Al Asad air base in western Iraq in late December 2018. In a briefing there, General Caine told the president that the Islamic State was not so tough and could be defeated in a week, not the two years that 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-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And at a Conservative Political Action Conference meeting <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1oKP_zi0XCY\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">last year<\/a>, Mr. Trump said that General Caine put on a Make America Great Again hat while meeting with him in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The details of these accounts have shifted over time in Mr. Trump\u2019s frequent retelling of the stories. But Mr. Bolton, who accompanied Mr. Trump on the trip to Iraq, said that General Caine and another senior general briefed the president on a plan to defeat the last remnants of the Islamic State in two to four weeks, not one week. And at no time, he said, did General Caine ever put on a MAGA hat. \u201cNo way,\u201d Mr. Bolton said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his social media message, Mr. Trump also noted General Caine\u2019s nickname, \u201cRazin,\u201d recalling Mr. Trump\u2019s obsession with former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis\u2019s nickname, \u201cMad Dog,\u201d a moniker Mr. Mattis hated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">General Caine\u2019s nickname embodied the kind of hell-raiser warrior straight out of central casting that Mr. Trump was looking for in his top general, officials said. He fulfilled a fantasy vision the president has of what generals do, they added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his post on Friday, Mr. Trump again praised General Caine\u2019s counterterrorism skills. \u201cDuring my first term, Razin was instrumental in the complete annihilation of the ISIS caliphate,\u201d the president said. \u201cIt was done in record setting time, a matter of weeks. Many so-called military \u2018geniuses\u2019 said it would take years to defeat ISIS. General Caine, on the other hand, said it could be done quickly, and he delivered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump revealed another reason for his unconventional choice. He said that General Caine had been passed over for promotion by President Joseph R. Biden Jr., a claim that Biden officials said on Sunday they could not address. Aides say that in Mr. Trump\u2019s mind, that perceived snub was a great endorsement, proof that General Caine has no specific loyalty to the previous administration. To Mr. Trump, who views most senior officers as incompetent and politically correct, it also suggests that General Caine has a different mind-set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Friends and former colleagues say that General Caine, an intensely focused but low-key, self-effacing officer despite his nickname, has been uncomfortable with Mr. Trump\u2019s characterization of his role in defeating the Islamic State. Friends who have known him for decades say they have no idea what his political affiliation is, explaining that the general does not talk about politics. General Caine did not respond to emails requesting comment on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But when the White House called a couple of weeks ago as he was preparing to move to Dallas from Washington, friends of General Caine say, he did not hesitate to accept the meetings with Mr. Trump and his top aides, and ultimately the job \u2014 out of duty to the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Which raises perhaps the most important question for General Caine as he prepares to return to active duty as soon as this week, and get ready for what is expected to be a tough Senate confirmation hearing: Will he give his best unvarnished military advice to Mr. Trump, or tell the president what he wants to hear?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe was always direct and candid in the interagency, which is no small feat,\u201d Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., a former head of Central Command who dealt frequently with General Caine in his C.I.A. job, said on Sunday. \u201cI never saw him as a yes-man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the senior Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, said in an interview on Sunday that he would press General Caine in his hearing on that central point: \u201cWill he have the ability to speak truth to power?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Jonathan Swan<!-- -->, <!-- -->Maggie Haberman<!-- --> and <!-- -->Helene Cooper<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/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\/02\/23\/us\/politics\/trump-dan-caine-joint-chiefs-chairman.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By late last week, President Trump had decided to fire Gen. 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