By Cybele Mayes-OstermanUSA TODAYSeptember 30, 2025They're coming to take a loyalty oath. To hear a speech about "warrior ethos." To take a physical fitness test.These are among the array of theories outsiders have floated in their attempts to explain a mysterious mass gathering Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hastily ordered last week, summoning hundreds of top military commanders to Quantico, Virginia, on Sept. 30.The Pentagon isn't dropping hints about why it ordered its highest-level officers from around the world to report to the base for an 8 a.m. meeting, which will likely cost taxpayers millions of dollars and create security challenges at home and abroad.
In history we only have to look to Germany in the 1930s:
History.comPublished: February 09, 2010, Last Updated: May 27, 2025In Germany, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler orders a bloody purge of his own political party, assassinating hundreds of Nazis whom he believed had the potential to become political enemies in the future. The event became known as the Night of the Long Knives.The leadership of the Nazi Storm Troopers (SA), whose four million members had helped bring Hitler to power in the early 1930s, was especially targeted. Hitler feared that some of his followers had taken his early “National Socialism” propaganda too seriously and thus might compromise his plan to suppress workers’ rights in exchange for German industry making the country war-ready.Trump has been following the Germany playbook, is this another page taken from it? It make you wonder. And it says a lot about the Presidency that you are wondering that. Also consider: Hegseth barring press from the Pentagon without an escort and a new 'pledge' for reporters at the Pentagon.
This reminders me of the Chinese blessing/curse: "May you live in interesting times."
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