# War Inside the Pentagon? The Military vs. Trump and Hegseth (G&R 487) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/war-inside-the-pentagon-the-military-vs-trump-and-hegseth-g-r-487 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/war-inside-the-pentagon-the-military-vs-trump-and-hegseth-g-r-487.md Podcast: [Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals](https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547) Published: 2026-04-16T09:31:00+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greenandred/episodes/War-Inside-the-Pentagon--The-Military-vs--Trump-and-Hegseth-GR-487-e3htj36 Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/10cb45ac/podcast/play/118458918/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-14%2F5b786a30-1d56-f527-d754-522a08266f42.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/episodes/war-inside-the-pentagon-the-military-vs-trump-and-hegseth-g-r-487 Duration seconds: 3041 ## Resource Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has initiated a major overhaul of the Pentagon leadership, firing over a dozen high-ranking military officials, including Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. CQ Brown Jr., and Adm. Lisa Franchetti. The moves, often executed without specific reasons, are part of a broader, controversial effort to remove officers deemed misaligned with the administration's priorities. Hegseth has also faced intense criticism for declaring that "no quarter" would be given to enemies in Iran, a statement interpreted as ordering troops to kill surrendering combatants, which is a war crime under international law. The actions have caused friction with leaders like Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and increasing skepticism of the administration's competency in waging wars. In our latest, we talk about the war inside the Pentagon between military leadership and Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. It's also the anniversary of the Vietnam Vets Against the War founding (April 15, 1967) and one of their most known mass actions, Dewey Canyon III (April 19-21, 1971) and discuss why military dissent is important. ------------------------ 🎸 Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody πŸ”— Links 🌐 How Vets are Resisting the War in Iran w/ Anti-War Veteran Zack Henson (https://bit.ly/47IdHMT) 🌐 Trump at War with the Military? Civil-Military Conflict in the U.S. (https://bit.ly/4mMaPTC) πŸ’š Support the Green and Red Podcast πŸŽ‰ Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast β˜• One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR πŸŽ™οΈ Follow Green and Red πŸ”— Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org 🌍 Our Networks 🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org πŸ“’ Anti-Capitalist… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/episodes/war-inside-the-pentagon-the-military-vs-trump-and-hegseth-g-r-487/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/war-inside-the-pentagon-the-military-vs-trump-and-hegseth-g-r-487.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.