{"id":638915,"date":"2026-10-23T09:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T09:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/638915\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T09:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T09:06:09","slug":"new-zealands-top-military-commander-resigns-over-inappropriate-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/638915\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s top military commander resigns over &#8216;inappropriate relationship&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">New Zealand\u2019s top military commander, Air Marshal Tony Davies, resigned on Friday after admitting to an \u201cinappropriate relationship\u201d that he had not previously disclosed.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Davies said his resignation stemmed from past errors of judgement that were contrary to the values of the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF).<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">\u201cThe resignation is for personal reasons, and results from errors of judgement made by me in the past, for which I am taking responsibility,\u201d he said in an official statement.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">\u201cThese matters revolved around an inappropriate relationship I had when in a position of unit command, and I regret not disclosing this when I had the opportunity to do so,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The matter has been referred to the inspector-general of defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s top military commander, Air Marshal Tony Davies, resigned on Friday after admitting to an \u201cinappropriate relationship\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-638915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}