Why? Sources say it may be because Esper and his team were pushing back on what they viewed as a premature withdrawal from Afghanistan before conditions were met, as well as other pending security issues.

And one more head on the chopping block on Tuesday: The under secretary of defense for intelligence, Joseph Kernan, also resigned. A Pentagon press release said that Kernan’s departure had been “planned for several months,”

On Tuesday, the acting under secretary of defense for policy, James Anderson, resigned upon a request from the White House. Anderson had only been in the job for eight months, and it was clear that the president wanted not him but his deputy: Tony Tata, who is a kook, a conspiracy theorist, and a bigot. The president had originally nominated Tata months ago but withdrew the nomination after the Senate made it clear that it wouldn’t confirm Tata. Now the job is his. Later on Tuesday, Jen Stewart, Esper’s chief of staff, also resigned at the request of the White House. Stewart is a respected figure in Washington, having worked for former chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Mac Thornberry and for House speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan.

His replacement, Christopher Miller, has a very thin résumé; he has been the director of the National Counterterrorism Center only since August. Miller is the fourth acting secretary of defense during Trump’s term—and for anyone paying attention to the formalities and legalities that this

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