Defense secretary’s speech touching on physical fitness and doctrine of lethality was seen as ā€˜egotistical’ and ā€˜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.

ā€œA lot of the words that are coming to me aren’t fit to print,ā€ said Shah, policy director for Common Defense, a veterans advocacy organization. ā€œThe 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€

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.

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    2 months ago

    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 ā€œterroristsā€. The only difference now is the ā€œterroristā€ 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.