
The Secretary of the Army handed in his resignation to Donald Trump after months of disagreements over changes in military leadership.
US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned after tensions with War Secretary Pete Hegseth over leadership changes at the agency, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Prolonged tensions between Army leadership and the Secretary of War over changes in senior positions.
The Secretary of the United States Army, Dan Driscoll, handed in his resignation to US President Donald Trump, after months of tensions with the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, over changes in the agency's leadership, as reported this Monday by The Wall Street Journal.
The newspaper anticipates that Driscoll will leave the Pentagon "in the coming days" and noted that, with his departure, the Army will lack civilian or military leaders confirmed by the Senate.
It is unclear whether the White House accepted his resignation or who may replace him.
Driscoll had expressed to the Trump Administration his concern about the transformation and disposition of the Army, and believed that Hegseth was harming those tasks, "specifically firing the generals who were responsible for him," indicated Fox News, which cited sources familiar with the matter.
Hegseth recently removed Generals Christopher Donahue and Randy George, as well as former Army Deputy Chief James Mingus, and filled the latter two's positions with a single high-ranking military officer, General Christopher LaNeve, he added.
A White House spokeswoman, Anna Kelly, highlighted to the media Driscoll's work on "historic military operations," his "emphasis on readiness and lethality," and negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
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Dan Driscoll will leave the Pentagon in the coming days.
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