Trump's team draws up a list of Pentagon officers to be fired

US President-elect Donald Trump and his conservative team of military advisers have drawn up a list of "woke" leaders in the Pentagon.During the election campaign, Trump vowed to fire "woke" generals and those responsible for the humiliating US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Trump's opponents say his only goal is to eliminate anyone in his path who opposes his policies. Media reports said Trump's team is drawing up a list of military officers to be fired. Two anonymous sources familiar with the matter said the officers targeted are high-ranking and related to General Mark Milley, the highest-ranking military officer in the United States, who retired last September. Since then, Milley, who had been Trump's former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been denounced as an obstructionist by conservatives.

In the book War by Bob Woodward, published in October, Milley is quoted as calling Trump a "fascist to the core.""Every single person who has been promoted and appointed by Milley is going to leave," one of the sources said. "There is a very detailed list of everyone who was associated with Milley. And they will all be gone."

The sources added that the number of cuts planned by Trump and his team will be unprecedented at the Pentagon. News of Trump's plans to fire top military leaders at the Pentagon comes a day after the president-elect picked Pete Hegseth, a Fox News commentator and veteran who has signaled a willingness to clean house, as Pentagon chief.In his book The War on Warriors, Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free, published in June, Hegseth argued that many senior leaders in the US military should be fired.

"The next president of the United States must fundamentally overhaul the Pentagon's senior leadership to get us ready to defend our nation and defeat our enemies. A lot of people need to be fired." Despite Trump's notorious unpredictability, experts said the potential shakeup at the Pentagon shows his plans to reshape US foreign policy based on his "America First" approach.

During the election campaign, Trump promised radical changes on multiple fronts to resolve what was left unfinished during his first term.Trump has repeatedly said that he could end the war between Russia and Ukraine within a day. He also promised to bring peace to the Middle East. Military experts have doubted his claims. Regarding China, the world's second-largest economy after the United States, Trump said he would order Washington to launch another trade war targeting Chinese products.Trump said he would impose crippling tariffs on Chinese imports.