The unusual all-hands meeting of flag and general officers — FOGOs, or officers of one to four stars — convened by War Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, has concluded. Much of the speculation about the purpose of the meeting has proven to be overheated. For instance, the worst-case scenario imagined by critics of President Donald Trump and the secretary — something like the “red wedding” scene from Game of Thrones: a mass purge of senior officers — did not materialize. Neither did a discussion of the new "National Defense Strategy," which is due to be published soon. He did not address the possibility of new regional priorities for the War Department, for instance, a shift from China and the Indo-Pacific theater to homeland security and hemispheric defense. He did not discuss possibly consolidating regional commands, e.g., recombining European Command and Africa Command and merging Southern Command and Northern Command. But that did not assuage the concerns of those critics that their ultimate goal is to “politicize” the military by purging those who do not share the president’s vision regarding security matters. They point to the fact that the Trump administration has fired several flag and general officers since taking office in January, including former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.; Adm. Lisa Franchetti, former chief of naval operations; Adm. Linda Fagan, former commandant of the Coast Guard;...