Recently Trump and Hegseth addressed 800 U.S. military leaders at Quantico. The mandatory meeting summoned generals and admirals worldwide at considerable cost.

Hegseth opened the meeting by announcing the new designation Department of War instead of Defense Department. What followed was his rolling out 10 new directives promoting physical fitness of our troops. After fat-shaming command leaders as modeling a “bad look,” he called for a “warrior ethos” emphasizing a “lethality of force” emphasizing “toughness.” He said that he expected that leadership should be intolerant of weakness suggesting more harsh tactics in training including hazing to prepare recruits for combat. He advocated the abandonment of “rules of engagement” favoring the training in the use of “full force.”

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