Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked the Army’s top uniformed officer to step down, the Pentagon said Thursday without giving a reason for the departure as the United States wages a war against Iran.

Occam’s razor says the reason is likely that a 44-year-long career army official refused to further escalate the commission of war crimes that his boss and his boss’s boss keep demanding. Perhaps more firings will continue until WWIII is too big to fail.