"For too long, this department has sent our best and brightest officers to Harvard, hoping the university would better understand and appreciate our warrior class," he said. "Instead, too many of our officers came back looking too much like Harvard — heads full of globalist and radical ideologies that do not improve our fighting ranks."
The most shameful thing about Harvard is that Pete Hegseth went there.
Given how modern warfare worked even before the drone era began with Putin’s war on Ukraine, the idea of building a military of “lethal warriors” as opposed to a military of strategic excellence with great logistics is backwards.
Keep fighting Harvard.
Pete Hegseth is so embarrassing.
I feel sorry for all American soldiers serving their country right now and that whole room full of generals he held his Ted talk to who looked as embarrassed as I feel right now.
He talks about the warrior class, but he allowed that US soldiers roll out the red carpet for Putin kneeling in the dirt, while putins bodyguards where laughing their ass off that US soldiers were crouching over the ground for them, so the commander in chief could impress the worlds greatest war criminal.
He talks about the highest moral and fitness standards, but the commander in chief is adipose and has a button in his office to get a fresh BigMac and a fresh coke while spending his time posting ai slop and racist memes on his social media platform.
Americans are lucky that you have so many good men and women serving your country putting the safety and well being of their people as priority over themselves, because otherwise by now three quarter of your troops would have quit.
They could make more money in the private sector and not have to deal with the bullshit the secretary seems to come up with while finding the bottom of a whiskey bottle. Still they put up with it every day, out of duty. I have nothing but respect for everyone serving under Laurel and Hardy.
I hope history will look back favorably at those heroes and expose Hegseth and Trump for what they really are. An embarrassment for all military standards and values we established for the past century.
Nobody wants mindless killing machines, they want fully functional members of society who serve their country and then go back to having a family and a well paying day job that is making a difference in the lives of others.
Defense of Defense. The name is set in law, and they're performatively violating the laws. Again. *sigh*
...though he took a four year break after his first semester.
https://thelist.com/2054069/how-far-pete-hegseth-got-in-scho...
> Going forward, Hegseth said, the War Department will focus on developing warriors, increasing lethality and reestablishing deterrence.
These people are just begging for conflict, domestically and abroad.
A Republican: "I want to establish deterrence by creating lethal warriors"
HN: "oh my god, they're begging to start a war!"
Republicans are war-mongers, everyone knows that, including their consistency. It's a key part of why people vote for them.
Now, granted, most US politicians are war-mongers. It's just part of our blood. But still, that shouldn't be a surprise.
Shifting the tone and language away from defense and peacekeeping and towards warmongering isn’t good for anyone.
“We sent our people to school and after becoming smarter they stopped believing our ideology so we’re going to keep them stupid instead”
“Lethal Warrior”
Given how modern warfare worked even before the drone era began with Putin’s war on Ukraine, the idea of building a military of “lethal warriors” as opposed to a military of strategic excellence with great logistics is backwards.
Keep fighting Harvard. Pete Hegseth is so embarrassing.
I feel sorry for all American soldiers serving their country right now and that whole room full of generals he held his Ted talk to who looked as embarrassed as I feel right now.
He talks about the warrior class, but he allowed that US soldiers roll out the red carpet for Putin kneeling in the dirt, while putins bodyguards where laughing their ass off that US soldiers were crouching over the ground for them, so the commander in chief could impress the worlds greatest war criminal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpUJK_yIRHE
Make kneeling great again I guess.
He talks about the highest moral and fitness standards, but the commander in chief is adipose and has a button in his office to get a fresh BigMac and a fresh coke while spending his time posting ai slop and racist memes on his social media platform.
Americans are lucky that you have so many good men and women serving your country putting the safety and well being of their people as priority over themselves, because otherwise by now three quarter of your troops would have quit.
They could make more money in the private sector and not have to deal with the bullshit the secretary seems to come up with while finding the bottom of a whiskey bottle. Still they put up with it every day, out of duty. I have nothing but respect for everyone serving under Laurel and Hardy.
I hope history will look back favorably at those heroes and expose Hegseth and Trump for what they really are. An embarrassment for all military standards and values we established for the past century.
Nobody wants mindless killing machines, they want fully functional members of society who serve their country and then go back to having a family and a well paying day job that is making a difference in the lives of others.
[flagged]
Harvard was never publicly-owned.