How Hegseth Likely Sees the Firings

David’s question: “What do you think he thinks is going on?”

Eve: “My guess is he sees himself as the one adult in a room full of careerists who spent twenty years optimizing for promotion instead of winning wars. In his head, the post-9/11 military drifted into nation-building, sensitivity training, and DEI metrics while China built shipyards. He probably thinks the generals who pushed back aren't patriots being silenced — they're the problem he was hired to remove. Whether that's conviction or self-justification is the part nobody outside his circle can really know.”