By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump will preside on Tuesday over an extraordinary gathering of America’s top generals and admirals from around the world, who were summoned to a Marine base in Virginia without explanation last week.

Trump has said he will use the face-to-face meeting with the U.S. military’s top commanders at the Marine Corps University in Quantico to tell them “we love them.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to talk about the “warrior ethos,” one of his favorite subjects.

The meeting comes after eight months of blistering changes at the Pentagon since Trump took office, including firing the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Navy’s top admiral, banning books from academy libraries and lethal strikes on su

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