Felicia Schwartz
Donald Trump fired General CQ Brown as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, ousting the respected Air Force leader as the president seeks to remove military officers who have supported diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
Brown was the most senior of six officials removed in a shake-up of the Pentagon’s top ranks that also saw chief of naval operations Admiral Lisa Franchetti and Air Force vice-chief of staff General James Slife fired along with the top lawyers for the Army, Navy and Air Force.
Trump said he would nominate retired Air Force Lt Gen Dan “Razin” Caine to replace Brown, who was the second Black general to serve as the military’s top officer and had begun his four-year term in October 2023.
The president has vowed to rid the military of what he derides as “woke” DEI programmes. The overhaul of the military’s top ranks came as the Pentagon is braced for budget cuts as part of the administration’s sweeping cost-cutting drive.
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