Defense secretary’s speech touching on physical fitness and doctrine of lethality was seen as ‘egotistical’ and ‘dangerous’
Naveed Shah, a veteran and activist who served as an enlisted public affairs specialist – an army journalist – uncharacteristically found himself searching for words to describe the address of the newly styled secretary of war to flag officers on Tuesday.
“A lot of the words that are coming to me aren’t fit to print,” said Shah, policy director for Common Defense, a veterans advocacy organization. “The 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.”
Hegseth’s 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 Trump’s rambling, politically charged hour-long speech that followed.
So how much did it cost to drag all of them to his special Ted talk? Government rules sure, but he just dragged all of the flag ranked official he could get his hands on and they are likely to be in hotels not barracks, and most probably flew commercial or use the VIP transports.
I’m 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
It’s looks like nothing happened. So that was kind of a moot point even if there’s always a chance.
The ends don’t justify the means
Oh I agree. I think I didn’t 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 didn’t happen so it was a moot point in that regards. It was still stupid though.
I mean, it’s the War budget we are talking about, Cost is not a factor. The Defense budget was so completely out of control, they could afford building a total electronic surveillance machine that records and stores everything anyone says or write on the Internet, all of that with the pocket change in the Pentagon’s couches.
Not just any hotels, Trump branded hotels. Gotta keep the grift going.