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.
Right? I’m sorry but the words of Bill Hicks still being true years after his death. Fuck the military.
https://youtu.be/BTFUI6kp8qQ
The people of the US are experiencing internally what most global south country have experienced heavily since WW2.
We have normalized violence against targets we label as “terrorists”. The only difference now is the “terrorist” happen to have been born on/live on the dirt we call the USA.
These Joes are use to killing innocent people. We’ve normalized it for generations. Don’t be shocked when a bunch of hired killers start doing their job at home.
miss the dark poet to this very day, always spot on