“It’s about getting the horses into the stable and whipping them into shape,” an anonymous defense official told the outlet. “And the guys with the stars on their shoulders make for a better audience from an optics standpoint. This is a showcase for Hegseth to tell them: Get on board, or potentially have your career shortened.”
Ah, so this was all just to threaten them.
Takes balls to gather the actually toughest people in the world and then try to intimidate them.
US military leadership are not remotely the toughest people in the world.
Not now that they’re exempting top brass from training due to “technical knowledge”
Or absolute fucking idiocy.
He is trying to get as many of them to resign as he can by jerking their chain.
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