President Donald Trump's choice last week to nominate Lt. Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine as his pick to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff marks uncharted territory for the military.

Pete Hegseth, secretary of defense and a 2025 Wash100 Award winner, has announced the intention of President Donald Trump to nominate retired Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In a press release published Friday, Hegseth also called for the nomination of key military positions.

Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, a relatively unknown figure, replaced Gen. C.Q. Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs in a Friday night upheaval at the Pentagon directed by Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth.

Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and nominated in Brown’s place a retired ... Although he had a leadership role in the U.S. campaign against the Islamic State extremist group and later served as the senior military officer at the ...

President Donald Trump nominated Lt. Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine as chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Military experts told BI it was an unusual choice.

No, President Donald Trump likely has little need for a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, given his penchant for ignoring unwelcome advice and preference for his own “commonsense” gut instincts, but the country probably does.