In the corridors of the Pentagon, a general's fate hangs not only on the preferences of his superiors but on the weight of relationships forged across oceans. General Christopher Donahue, whose thinking about future warfare has earned him allies among defense leaders worldwide, now finds those international bonds tested as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth considers reshaping Army leadership. It is an old tension made new again — the question of whether a man's value can be measured by those beyond his own chain of command, and whether the architecture of alliances can outlast the politics that s