Defense secretaryās speech touching on physical fitness and doctrine of lethality was seen as āegotisticalā and ādangerousā
Naveed Shah, a veteran and activist who served as an enlisted public affairs specialist ā an army journalist ā uncharacteristically found himself searching for words to describe the address of the newly styled secretary of war to flag officers on Tuesday.
āA lot of the words that are coming to me arenāt fit to print,ā said Shah, policy director for Common Defense, a veterans advocacy organization. āThe people in that room who have served for 20, 30-plus years in uniform do not need Pete Hegseth to tell them about warrior ethos.ā
Hegsethās hour-long Ted talk-style address touching on physical fitness, the doctrine of lethality and the perils of DEI certainly drew more attention than a policy memo might have, and perhaps more than Donald Trumpās rambling, politically charged hour-long speech that followed.
Iām less concerned about the cost than I am about putting the entire military leadership from POTUS on down into one room at a specific location even if it is Quantico
Itās looks like nothing happened. So that was kind of a moot point even if thereās always a chance.
The ends donāt justify the means
Oh I agree. I think I didnāt explain my point well. Bringing them all in one place was fiscally, operationally and securely stupid, however though people were freaked out that someone was gonna blow them all up or get shot up, and that didnāt happen so it was a moot point in that regards. It was still stupid though.