{"id":149065,"date":"2026-04-02T21:23:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149065"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:23:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:23:47","slug":"hegseth-ousts-armys-top-uniformed-officer-even-as-us-wages-war-on-iranunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149065","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth ousts army\u2019s top uniformed officer, even as US wages war on IranUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostDefence Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked the US Army\u2019s top uniformed officer, General Randy George, to step down, the Pentagon said Thursday, as the United States wages a war against Iran.<br \/>\nA Pentagon official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, confirmed that George has been asked to take early retirement from the post of Army chief of staff, which he has held since August 2023.<br \/>\nThe ousting of George is just the latest of more than a dozen firings of top&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3348861\/hegseth-ousts-armys-top-uniformed-officer-even-us-wages-war-iran?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostDefence Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked the US Army\u2019s top uniformed officer, General Randy George, to step down, the Pentagon said&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149065"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}