Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 28.08.2026
When we say state, we mean the state apparatus that protects the interests of the ruling class. This mechanism includes: the army, the police, the courts and prisons.
In Israel and the United States, there are developing radical Bonapartist regimes that lead to the privatization of the state apparatus. Thus, for example, in Israel, the police are a force of Ben-Gvir and the S.B. is a power that is loyal to Netanyahu and not to all the capitalists.
We now see that the American military is going in the last months through the process of privatization.
A series of layoffs and confrontations initiated by U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth left the U.S. military without professional leadership. In April, Hesseth fired General Randy George without explanation, and the Army has no chief of staff, nor is there any sign that Hesseth is close to appointing a replacement. He even forced at least three senior officers who were considered possible candidates to succeed George to leave.
Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, the military’s senior civilian official, is expected to leave the administration in the coming months. According to the available information, he has already left the large family home he rented in Fort Myers, near Washington, D.C.
Until recently, Driscoll was considered a possible candidate to replace Hast, should the defense secretary decide to retire or lose President Donald Trump’s support. Driscoll and George worked together to prepare the ground army for a battlefield with UAVs. At the end of last year, the White House even asked Driscoll to play a central role in efforts to achieve a peace agreement that would end the war in Ukraine.
Hesseth forced about half a dozen more senior officers to leave, a generation of some of the most experienced commanders in combat in the Ground Army. “Emptying the military of the most experienced commanders in combat, the deadliest and those who have proven themselves, in wartime, means that the soldiers are less secure and we have a lower chance of winning,” said Rep. Pat RRyan, a Democrat from New York and a former intelligence officer in the Army.
The dismissal sends a message that there is no place in the army for officers who give frank and honest military advice or who do not meet ideological tests. “We are causing generational damage to the perception of the military as a non-political organization that swore allegiance to the constitution and not to the president,” Ryan added.
One of the most prominent manifestations of the process of turning the military into a Trump loyalist is the decline in the number of four-star generals serving in the Ground Army. In January 2025, when Hesseth took office, ten generals of this rank served in active service. Today, only five remain – the lowest number in recent decades.
It seems that the Hesseth ‘s distrust of senior military commanders has only deepened from the month he entered the Pentagon. Last October, Hesseth ousted Gen. James Mingus, the deputy chief of staff of the Army Corps of Engineers, a year before he was due to leave office. His decision to oust Mingus without providing a clear explanation raised reservations among some members of the Senate, further exacerbating his already tense relations with the Army and Congress.
In his place, Hesseth and the White House offered to appoint Gen. Christopher LeNieve, Heseth’s top military aide. But LaNive does not have enough support among Republicans in the Senate to confirm his appointment. Generally, generals and admirals who are nominated to command the branches of the military receive unanimous or almost unanimous support in the Senate.
One factor in Rome’s decline was the privatization of its army: Roman soldiers became loyal primarily to their legion commanders. This shift occurred because many peasant soldiers had lost their land to Rome’s wealthy elite, weakening their loyalty to the ruling class and tying their allegiance instead of only to the legions in which they served.
The process of the privatization of the state apparatus reflects – the decline and decay of the US and the Zionist monster, which is in the interest of the international working class and the oppressed.