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Hegseth calls all Military heads, including overseas, to North Virginia for undisclosed meeting
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrepperIntel/s/sV8n1nfZ3sUnderlying WaPo article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/25/hegseth-generals-quantico-meeting/
This is ominous, and the most serious issue to be concerned with at the moment.
This simply isn’t done. Unless we are on the verge of war, or something else unprecedented.
One of the following could be the reason
- War with Venezuela (my personal likely reason)
- Pulling leadership away from Europe for pending strikes from Russia
- War with China/Russia
- Use of military domestically
- Stupidity of leadership
I do not think it is credibly related to the pending shutdown, as WaPo suggests.
We’ve had shutdowns in the past and the military is exempt.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm after the Trump administration’s firing of numerous senior leaders this year.
The highly unusual directive was sent to virtually all of the military’s top commanders worldwide, according to more than a dozen people familiar with the matter. It was issued earlier this week, against the backdrop of a potential government shutdown, and as Hegseth’s overtly political moves have deepened a sense of distress among his opponents who fear that he is erasing the Defense Department’s status as a nonpartisan institution.
The highly unusual directive was sent to virtually all of the military’s top commanders worldwide, according to more than a dozen people familiar with the matter. It was issued earlier this week, against the backdrop of a potential government shutdown, and as Hegseth’s overtly political moves have deepened a sense of distress among his opponents who fear that he is erasing the Defense Department’s status as a nonpartisan institution.
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