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Military Accountability in the Post-COVID Age
What Military Accountability for COVID Looks Like Chase Spears It’s not about revenge—it’s about a proper response to an irresponsible leadership class. Roughly a year before President Trump was inaugurated for the second time, I joined a group of 230 veterans in signing the Declaration of Military Accountability. It seeks justice for the violation of […]
Rank-and-File React to Hegseth’s Meet
‘…if they didn’t like his message, “then you should do the honorable thing and resign.”‘ ‘Come-to-Jesus meeting’: Military community reacts to Hegseth’s get fit, get in line or get out speech War Secretary delivered a blunt message to military leaders that seemingly resonated with rank-and-file By Morgan Phillips Fox News War Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered […]
Hegseth’s All Hands
SecWar on Back to Basics Pete Hegseth had a lot to say when he summoned military leaders. Here are some facts and context By JULIE WATSON, LAURIE KELLMAN and DEEPTI HAJELA NEW YORK (AP) — Armed with a 10-point plan and pacing a stage in Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth enumerated for […]
Government Shutdown. Again
Pentagon readies contingency plans for government shutdown The department’s ‘highest priorities’ will revolve around operations securing the US Southern border, operations in the Middle East, designing Golden Dome, depot maintenance, shipbuilding and critical munitions, according to the guidance. By Ashley Roque WASHINGTON — With less than two days left before the US government potentially shuts […]
Hasan’s Days are Numbered
Sixteen Years Has Passed Since the Fort Hood Massacre and Nidal Hasan Is Out of Options Beege Welborn On November 5, 2009, an Army psychiatrist named Nidal Malik Hasan took a pistol fitted with a laser sight, entered an Army processing center on Fort Hood in Texas, and proceeded to slaughter his fellow unarmed and […]
DACOWITS Decommed
Hegseth terminates women’s advisory group, slams ‘divisive agenda’ By Hope Hodge Seck The Pentagon has announced plans to terminate a 75-year-old advisory committee serving female service members, citing a “divisive” and harmful agenda — days after a previous memo established plans for reactivating it. A Sept. 17 memo signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and […]
Removing Disgraced Veterans
Senators seek to make it easier for VA to exhume ‘disgraced’ veterans By Karen Jowers A bipartisan group of U.S. senators wants to make it easier to exhume and remove the remains of veterans convicted of serious crimes from national cemeteries. “The burial grounds of our national cemeteries should be reserved for the bravest and […]
What’s In A Name?
Trump, Hegseth float renaming Defense Department to Department of War By Leo Shane III Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said plans to rename his agency as the Department of War are “coming soon,” but it remains unclear whether the executive branch can make such a move without congressional permission. During a White House press event on […]
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