{"id":330698,"date":"2026-09-03T05:30:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T05:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=330698"},"modified":"2026-09-04T07:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:36:54","slug":"us-military-leaders-warn-hegseth-over-unsustainable-iran-war-duration-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=330698","title":{"rendered":"US military leaders warn Hegseth over \u2018unsustainable\u2019 Iran war duration: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Europesays.com &#8212; Aug 30, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Senior US military commanders have warned Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth that the continuing war against Iran is \u201cunsustainable\u201d and threatens the country\u2019s ability to respond to global crises and defend the homeland, The Washington Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>The warnings appeared in the August 14 edition of the Secretary of Defense Orders Book, a classified internal document used to direct military movements.<\/p>\n<p>People familiar with the assessment said the latest edition requires certain personnel currently in the Middle East to remain there through September, while other units have been ordered to continue their deployments into 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The heads of the army, navy and air force, along with four-star commanders responsible for operations in Europe, Asia and Latin America, characterised the six-month war as \u201ctoo much for too long\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of US European Command, US Indo-Pacific Command and US Southern Command, as well as the Navy\u2019s top admiral, formally registered their \u201cnon-concurrence\u201d with orders extending the deployment of their forces in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Although the move signals formal disagreement with the defence secretary\u2019s directive, the commanders confirmed that they would still carry out the mission.<\/p>\n<p>The report said the reassignment of ships and surveillance aircraft to US Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, had reduced the military\u2019s capacity for training and homeland defence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/3224030\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior US commanders for the US army, navy and air force have formally registered their disagreement with Secretary of War Hegseth\u2019s directive on Iran. How long before more junior ranks show their disagreement? Will we then see open mutiny?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran-u-s-israel-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330699,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330698\/revisions\/330699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}