Of all the crap flying around, I find this one very worrying. The Washington Post is reporting that “Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals.” That is, the Secretary of Defense has apparently called an in-person gathering of nearly all the generals and admirals in the US military. No reason for the gathering has been released.

I don’t want to go all “conspiracy theorist” on this one, but the fiction writer part of my brain is having a field day:

Will the president be declaring martial law, and getting the troops under these commanders out in the streets?

Is this a plan to leave our troops in the field without senior leadership, to let some foreign adversary walk all over them?

Will they be threatened to get into line or disappear into some deep, dark hole?

Is there a plan to remove or kill the generals, to replace them with loyalists?

Let me repeat: this is the fiction writer in me, with no proof and no evidence but the call to gather. Nevertheless, in an era when the term “unprecedented” has become commonplace, such a gathering truly is unprecedented, and thus open to misinterpretation when no reason is given.