A Breath of Fresh Air

This year, President-elect Donald Trump’s contenders began their Senate confirmation sessions. The nominations proved to be a breath of fresh air after four decades of the Biden administration’s operational weariness. The comparison is stunning, and they absolutely reject the failed philosophies of the Biden era.

Pete Hegseth, a candidate for the Secretary of Defense, stated that it was time to “bring the hero lifestyle up to the Department of Defense.” His light focus would be on “warfighting, mortality, democracy, standards and readiness”. To do that, Hegseth pledged to eviscerate so-called diversity, equity and inclusion requirements, explaining,” The strength of our government is our unification– our shared objective– no our differences” .&nbsp,

For that completely anodyne view, Democrats raked Hegseth over the embers. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R. I., violently intoned,” Our defense is more different than it has ever been, but more importantly, it is more devastating than it has ever been. This is not a accident”. Diversity, by definition, has nothing to do with lethality; however, the idea that an army made up of people of different ethnicities but without a common goal do defeat an army with a common goal but without racial diversity is naive. However, these ideologies have been the foundation of our defense strategy for many years. That’s how we end up with Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, denying the negative effects of” light trend.”

Hegseth was then criticized by Reed for his critical assessment of the stringent commitment regulations that the Defense Department frequently enacted. Hegseth responded,” As anyone who’s led men in fight instantly and had to make very tough decisions, I thought very much about the balance between legality and lethality, making sure that the front-liner personnel have the opportunity to kill with and near the enemy, and that lawyers aren’t the ones getting in the way,” adding that. Hegseth is aware that very frequently, the laws of war are imposed on the most compassionate parties to a fight while those who violate them are given the benefit.

However, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N. Y., was having a panic of her own. She yelled,” You said you don’t like politicians in the DOD,” indignant at previous Hegseth feedback suggesting his opposition to women serving in front-line positions. All you’ve said in these common claims is politics.’ I don’t like ladies, I don’t need moms.’ What’s bad with a baby, by the way? Once you have infants, you so are no longer able to be lethal”? Of course, as Hegseth made evident, what he was saying was that&nbsp, any&nbsp, issue that stands in the way of military efficiency ought to be put off. However, for the left, the military’s goal is to advance social policy rather than to win wars.

Hegseth will be given the go-ahead this week. He ought to be, too. Over the past decade, the American military has been run by generals who have a focus on winning domestic political battles within the Defense rather than actual wars. Members of the American military have for too long been tamed to the desires of those who are willing to risk their lives to refute utopian fantasies about the antiseptic possibilities of warfighting.

That era is over.

If only it had come to an end long ago.

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