Beware the Purging of General Donahue

It’s an iconic image of the war on terrorism.

A single grainy figure, bathed in the green light of night-vision goggles, steps toward the back of an Air Force transport — the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan, one minute before President Joe Biden’s Aug. 31, 2021, deadline.

That soldier was Gen. Christopher Donahue, then the commander of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. He and his men had been deployed to Kabul on an emergency basis to protect Americans and their allies during the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

He is also the latest casualty of Pete Hegseth’s........

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