The time for double standards is over. An apolitical military must be apolitical—and focused on the task of winning wars.

Chatfield’s firing is the latest high-profile termination to rock the Pentagon following the removal of General Timothy Haugh, chief of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, and Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female Chief of Naval Operations.

Shoshana Chatfield was the only woman on NATO's military committee before being dismissed by the Trump administration.