A top advisor to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was escorted from the Pentagon on Tuesday and placed on leave amid an ongoing investigation into unauthorized disclosures of information, Reuters reports. Dan Caldwell was “identified” in the course of the investigation according to Reuters’ anonymous source; the nature of the alleged disclosures and to whom they were made was not revealed.
Caldwell, a Marine and veteran of the Iraq war, wrote in a 2024 article at Foreign Affairs that he advocates for a defense policy of restraint and that the United States should give up on the goal of American primacy, but clarified in a podcast interview with Financial Times that:
I think the United States should strive to remain the most powerful country in the world. But in my mind, that is different from trying to achieve primacy. In my view, attempting to be the…
