"Karmanye Vadhikaraste, Ma Phaleshou Kada Chana" - This famous Sanskrit verse from the Bhagavad Gita translates to "You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action." +
JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next.
Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades.
George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks.
The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order.
No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide.
A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute.
The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no.
The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it.
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Meet Vikas Tiwari, I am sure 99% of you won't know about him.
He is a social‑media reporter “Bastar Talkies” who has played a key mediation role in the surrender‑negotiation of senior Naxalite leaders in Bastar, Chhattisgarh.
Watch how smoothly he is sitting in forests with the naxalite leader and talking to the Home minister of Chhattisgarh Vijay Sharma and making sure they comes to the mainstream.
This guy was actively involved in Bringing Back naxalites to the Mainstream, the misguided tribals of Bastar who had joined the naxalites organisation.
This guy deserves appreciation not less than Padma Shri 🙌
@narendramodi Respected Modiji, the Government is losing credibility by bringing law to circumvent the Supreme Court ruling on CAPF. Wildly hyped as elite guardians, yet corruption, power abuse, and inefficiency make IPS unfit to lead CAPFs effectively.
@ANI You have lost your credibility by bringing law to circumvent the Supreme Court ruling on CAPF. Wildly hyped as elite guardians, yet corruption, power abuse, and inefficiency make IPS unfit to lead CAPFs effectively.
@Tejasvi_Surya By bringing laws to circumvent the Supreme Court orders, Modi government is losing it's credibility. By succumbing to the pressure of powerful IPS lobby, you have exposed your weakness. People will remember the injustice done to the CAPF!!
@AmitShahOffice You have lost your credibility by bringing law to circumvent the Supreme Court ruling on CAPF. It seems that the IPS lobby has played some hidden cards! Wildly hyped as elite guardians, yet corruption, power abuse, and inefficiency make IPS unfit to lead CAPFs effectively.
Rajya Sabha Passes CAPF Amendment Bill To Negate Supreme Court Direction Against IPS Officers' Appointment |@1Simranbakshi#CAPFBill
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My father never liked the man I was going to marry from day one.
But I was in love… I didn’t listen.
We got married.
5 months later, we got divorced.
After that:
I lost my confidence
I lost my faith
I felt ashamed in front of my family
One day, I asked my father:
How were you so sure?
Calmly, he said:
Naval HQ asked for my ETA at Mumbai when I was at Cape Horn. I wanted to tell them sailboats have destinations, not ETAs. I gave them a holiday instead.
On 26 January, I was rounding the Horn, hoisting the tricolor just a mile south of that storied rock. Amidst the gale of congratulatory signals, Navy HQ sent a query only a bureaucrat could: What is your ETA?
With half the globe still beneath my keel and the winds unpredictable, the salt in me wanted to write back, that sailboats had destinations, not ETAs. But my previous mails had already tested the headquarters' patience for humor and sarcasm. I decided a bold calculation was safer than a cheeky proverb.
If the past was an indicator, my voyage was being steered by a celestial ledger. We had slipped moorings on Kerala Foundation Day, rounded Leeuwin on 12-12-12 (the Mayan apocalypse), passed New Zealand on Christmas, crossed the International Date Line on New Years and hit the Horn on Republic Day. By that logic, landfall had to be a holiday.
I checked the charts and staked my reputation on Easter Sunday, with All Fools’ Day as the backup.
The boat did not disappoint. I turned 34 years old at 34°W. The hull turned four years at 4°W. We crossed the Prime Meridian on Valentine’s Day, where a heavy swell put me in a poetic mood; remembering Pablo Neruda whose home I had once visited, I felt the ocean wanting to do to me what spring does to cherry trees. We rounded the Cape of Good Hope on Copernicus’ birthday, passed Mauritius on its National Day and crossed the Equator on the Equinox. Out of pure respect for the sun, I permitted it to cross the line ahead of me.
Finally, as predicted, we made landfall on Easter Sunday. I was received by friends and naval brass in an intimate reception hosted onboard INS Delhi by the C-in-C Admiral Shekhar Sinha @shekhar19541, who shook hands in congratulations and uttered the words:
You have created history out of geography.
151 days at sea had an emaciating effect on my sea-legs, so much so that two Admirals had to hoist me up the ladder of INS Delhi. By the time I stepped onto firm land, it was past midnight, All Fools’ Day.
The irony was perfect. Before casting off, immigration officials at Yellow Gate had refused to stamp my passport because my destination was Mumbai. They claimed it made no sense to leave for where I already was.
Yet I returned five months later, 20kg lighter, skin and hair bronzed by salt and sun. When I went to be stamped back into existence on the 1st of April, the official’s hands trembled as if seeing a resurrection. In his shock, he stamped my passport upside down.
I had left Mumbai to find Mumbai, but found myself instead.
I found that Melville was prescient, having foretold with the utmost clarity of a clairvoyant exactly what I would feel over a century and a half later:
Here was a man some twenty thousand miles from home, by the way of Cape Horn that is... and yet he seemed entirely at his ease; preserving the utmost serenity; content with his own companionship; always equal to himself.
Today, that story is exactly 13 years old.
@indiannavy@CaptDKS
This isn’t just an honor, it’s the result of fearless decisions taken when it mattered the most. ☠️
Every star on the uniform carries the weight of a thousand risks taken for the nation.
Salute to the brave hearts who stand fearless, so the country can live in peace. 🙏
His name was Manjunath Shanmugam.
He was an IIM Lucknow graduate.
He got a job with Indian Oil Corporation as a sales officer.
His territory was Uttar Pradesh.
He found that petrol pump dealers were adulterating fuel and cheating customers.
He reported it. He sealed the pumps.
On November 19 2005 a petrol pump owner shot him dead outside his office.
He was 27 years old.
The killers were convicted. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
His parents did not get compensation for 15 years.
His college created the Manjunath Shanmugam Trust in his name to fight corruption.
Some men die because they refused to look the other way.
India forgets them too quickly.
Tankha Ji Hits Point Blank
IPS deputation was a Stop Gap Arrangment which was temporary in nature.But Now they dont want to leave these posts by affirming this bill.
Bill is brought in haste, devoid of merits, ill conceived and divergent from SC judgments
@capf@crpf
I would rate it 0/10
This is how the system in the country works..those in power circles don't want to lose their turf....the arguments given are so lame including misquoting Sardar Patel
For a change it was pathetic..ur voice lacks logic and conviction. The country will go to dogs if the thinktank sells its soul and sells it cheap. I have always found ur arguments fact based brutal and logical but not this one. P।do some introspection janab
My Friend @SudhanshuTrived BJP MP waxed eloquent abt DG CRPF leading from the front for 3 weeks in anti Naxal Op “ Black Forest “. The fact is DG supervised the ops from the CRPF Mess in Raipur. Sudhanshu ji , this is the tragedy of these forces. @RijijuOffice