Donald Trump and his shadow Pete Hegseth put America's military into danger because the Pentagon lost many experts who could get us out of Trump's failed World War

Echo opinion letter to the Editor published in the Los Angeles Times

Unilaterally taking our nation into an illegal war calls for military expertise. But, Donald Trump fired a lot of that.

Taking our country into a war requires the expert input of experienced generals or others with valuable knowledge about such serious matters in order to see a successful result (“The Strait of Hormuz shows us the biggest flaw in America’s Iran war strategy,” March 23). But, Donald Trump and Defense (or, uh, War❓🙄) Secretary Pete (aka Whiskey Pete) Hegseth have fired or demoted decades of combat experience and intelligence know-how.

Their impossible to understand shakeup targeted several high-ranking officers with deep combat and strategic experience. They include Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. CQ Brown Jr. (who has significant combat command experience), Army Lt. Gen. Joe McGee (director for strategy, plans and policy on the Joint Staff) and Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Mingus.

And just look where stupid Donald Trump's, er, "superior strategic knowledge" got us❓“Foreseeable failure" is right.

From Robert Archerd, in Rancho Palos Verdes, California

Niccolò Machiavelli wrote in “The Prince,” “The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.” By relying solely on military might, Trump has stumbled into a foreseeable trap as Iran leverages its control of the Strait of Hormuz, exposing a lack of strategic thinking from the White House.

From T. Michael Spencer, in Washington state