A few days ago, there was a bit of a tempest in a teapot when our representative to the NATO military committee, a female US Navy admiral named Shoshana Chatfield, was ‘forced out,’ as the media decided to put it.
Now, the pretty sympathetic coverage the story got was overshadowed by the noise of the tariff tussle, but what airtime it did get made sure to hit all the narrative notes so popular now. As you can imagine, those include Pete Hegseth’s war on women in the military, Trump’s aversion to people of color, and ‘woke,’ as well as what the press sees as his ego-maniacal driven insistence on loyalty.
The Pentagon on Tuesday confirmed Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield has been removed from her position as the U.S. military representative to NATO’s military committee, making her at least the ninth senior military officer forced out by the Trump…
