The Defense Sec Pete Hegseth, summoned ALL of his Top Uniform leaders to a session in the Pentagon at the Same time….
Something that just does NOT happen….
The suspense is palpable…
Then?
Hegseth’s Boss, Trump, decided he will show up to share the media spotlight ….
The Defense Sec. will let the bosses know that HIS view of their mission IS ..(Draft info of the session’s direction HAVE been leaked)
‘Centering the Pentagon on perceived threats to the homeland, narrowing U.S. competition with China, and downplaying America’s role in Europe and Africa…’
Hmmmmm?
The people in the room will be career American Military Officers….
They have sworn a oath to ‘Protect America form Threats Domestic and Foreign’
They do NOT see themselves as the “Tip of the Spear’ pointed at Domestic Political Target’s’…
THAT IS NOT what they signed up in the beginning of their career ‘s….It is NOT what they see their jobs as’….
It would appear that the directive from their boss has ‘The Troop’s’ UNEASY….
China IS a VERY REAL Threat to these people
Europe IS a Place that needs America’s Help and Support, as it has for Over a century….
Africa IS a place to watch as China and Russia seek to increase it’s military presence there….
While Hegseth and Trump are don’t think about it?
The men in the room are SURE to remember Pearl Harbor and Sept 11 as attacks s on the America from ‘afar’…
America , for these men?
Can NOT turn away from the outside world for Political purposes of a leader who happens to be a convicted criminal trying dismantle the American Government they have sworn to protect….
A lecture from a Defense Sec. that has also has personal history that would have had these guys kicked him out of their commands…
Military leaders have raised serious concerns about the Trump administration’s forthcoming defense strategy, exposing a divide between the Pentagon’s political and uniformed leadership as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons top brass to a highly unusual summit in Virginia on Tuesday, according to eight current and former officials.
The critiques from multiple top officers, including Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, come as Hegseth reorders U.S. military priorities — centering the Pentagon on perceived threats to the homeland, narrowing U.S. competition with China, and downplaying America’s role in Europe and Africa.
President Donald Trump will attend the abrupt gathering of generals and admirals at Marine Corps Base Quantico, where Hegseth is expected to deliver remarks on military standards and the “warrior ethos,” even as uniformed leaders fear mass firings or a drastic reorganization of the combatant command structure and the military hierarchy.
The debate over the National Defense Strategy — the Pentagon’s primary guide for how it prioritizes resources and positions U.S. forces around the world — is the latest challenge for top military officials navigating the Trump administration’s unorthodox approach to the armed forces.
People familiar with the editing process, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive deliberations, described a growing sense of frustration with a plan they consider myopic and potentially irrelevant, given the president’s highly personal and sometimes contradictory approach to foreign policy.
Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell declined to comment on the substance of the classified document or whether concerns had been raised in the editing process.
“Secretary Hegseth has tasked the development of a National Defense Strategy that is laser focused on advancing President Trump’s commonsense America First, Peace Through Strength agenda,” Parnell said in a statement. “This process is still ongoing.”….
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Much of the internal criticism of the new strategy regards the document’s emphasis on threats to the U.S. homeland even as China continues a rapid military buildup that uniformed leaders have warned is narrowing the U.S.’s edge in the Pacific, according to several people familiar with the matter.
There are still substantial sections of the document that do focus on China, but these are largely concentrated on the threat of an attack on Taiwan, rather than global competition with the U.S.’s largest adversary, five people said. Colby has long warned that the U.S. military is unprepared for the risk of a Chinese invasion and called for Washington to shift attention and resources toward the problem….
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That interim document also hinted at the emerging strategy to use military personnel in a more assertive role at home and abroad. The Pentagon was directed by Hegseth to “prioritize efforts to seal our borders, repel forms of invasion including unlawful mass migration, narcotics trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, and other criminal activities, and deport illegal aliens in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security,” according to the document….
image…NY Times….
Who would be?
Forced to listen to a loudmouth common street drunk who,even most of the servile Republicans in the Senate admit ,is in way over his head babbling about the “ warrior ethos.”
Indeed…..
Indeed…