The Guest fires a top military commander again The Atlantic Magazine: Brett Silvia, the Pentagon's chief planning officer, was removed from the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces earlier this week without giving any explanation. Silvia was the head of the strategy, plans and policy department of the joint headquarters known as "G5" and is the second person to be removed from this position in a year.

The Guest fires a top military commander again The Atlantic Magazine: Brett Silvia, the Pentagon's chief planning officer, was removed from the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces earlier this week without giving any explanation. Silvia was the head of the strategy, plans and policy department of the joint headquarters known as "G5" and is the second person to be removed from this position in a year.