January 28, 2025
Each of the predecessors of Gegset emphasized the unity and a diverse military as a key to national progress and protection.
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Each recently minted Defense Secretary has entered the post for one main purpose: to prepare US forces for the country’s foreign enemies, if necessary. But not Pete Hugset. For our newest secretary, the enemy, who needs to be overcome, is not in the US borders, but inside: “Marxists” in the government, the media and civil society, which, according to his commitment to racial and gender diversity – and thus the same undermined his programming. Now in the position – in the Senate – a narrow 51-50 voting the main priorities The officer class will be cleaned by those who spoiled this “woke up shit”, as he calls it, and forcing women, blacks and people LGBTK leaves the authority or not from the military.
HEGSET, former Captain of the National Guard Army and Leading Fox News, was very clear in his public comments and a recent book, War with Warriors: For betrayal of men who keep us freeAbout his vision of the armed forces. Instead of a diversified force that is widely represented for the US, it is looking for a power that is largely consisting of white, preservative people. This requires, first of all, the exception of all measures aimed at promoting diversity, justice and inclusion (Dei) into military service and removal of any officer who may have supported DEI’s efforts or perhaps facilitated as a result of them. Its top The purpose of the priorities: Air Force General Charles Q. Brown Jr.
“First of all, you have to dismiss the chairman (joint chiefs,” Hugset said in an interview on November 7 Shaw Ryan’s showPodcaste organized by the former contractor of the Navy. “But any general who participated – the general, the Admiral, whatever … In any of” Dei Wake “must go,” he added.
Another probable goal of HegSeth: Chief of Military Operations Adm. Lisa Franceti, the first woman who acted as the Navy’s chief combat officer. In his book in 2024, Hegset calls Admiral Franceti as “another inexperienced first” – that is, someone as General Brown, who, he said. (Both General Brown and Admiral Franceti Keep much more military experience than hegseth: Brown, former Air Force fighter pilot, registered more than 3,000 hours of flight, including 130 hours in combat; Franchetti served in the Navy 40 years and commanded aircraft carriers. Another highly experienced woman is the officer, the commandant of the Coast Guard. Linda Lee Fagan, was fired Acting Secretary of the Department of Internal Security Benjamin Hafman, January 21, allegedly her “Excessive” focus on Dei’s efforts.)
HEGSET trip to superstructure Brown, Francetti and other famous black and women -anes who, he said any The officer called for greater diversity in the officer’s corps (which remains mainly White and men) restrain women and minorities from reporting on racist, misery or abusive behavior of their officers or soldier colleagues; And to prevent women and African American to apply for officers or even volunteers to service in the army.
Sometimes Gegset stated that women should not serve in combat at all. “I just say we shouldn’t have women in combat roles,” he said Sean Ryan during the on November 7. He thought that for women in order, as in hostilities, it was normal to perform sister, material and technical roles as they did in the past, but did not serve with men in armor, infantry or special forces. “Everything concerning men and women who serve together makes the situation more complicated, and complications in battles mean that the victims are worse,” he said.
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Hegset changed its position under the interrogation of the Senate Armed Services Committee during its confirmation audition On January 14, saying that it would not object to women who serve in battle until they adhered to certain (uncertain) “standards”. But having received confirmation, he is now free to pursue his more exclusive views. Moreover, the fact that Gegset refused to admit or take responsibility for the history of men’s abuse –record In detail, in the designed statement of his former daughter-in-law Daniel Ditrich HEGSET-POSSUE, send a message to male soldiers that any sexual violence against his colleagues will probably remain unpunished.
As for African Americans, Hegset was more attentive. Boying his “ethos of the warrior” he carefully ecumenical When describing His friends in the military: “Officers and enlisted. Black -white. Young and old. Men and women. All Americans. All the warriors.” Choosing CQ Brown as its first main goal, it will send a signal to all African Americans in an officer building (or seeks to join.
Hegset also hinted at its benefits to increasingly white force. (Today’s active service force is approximately 68 percent of white and 18 percent of African Americans, Pentagon data Shows. “There are hundreds of thousands of patriotic, strong, male people who have ripe for recruitment throughout America, from a small city to a small city,” he suggested. But he noted That “all” diversity “reports of recruitment made certain children – white children – feel the way they did not want,” and therefore need to be overhauled.
As for the LGBTC in the Armed Forces, Hugset was much more open about its discriminatory intentions. Transgender people – he says he. It’s so easy. “He didn’t say the same about gays and lesbians, but it seems to be prefers to remain in the closet where they were forced to hide under the so -called” Don’t Say “(Dadt) (DADT) The policy presented in 1994 and abolished in 2017. Tadt’s president, “was a violation in the wire – the left need to promote much more extreme ideology”, under which it seems to be the adoption People.
All these intentions and inclinations will affect the armed forces, creating fears and upset in the officer building and increasing the racial and gender friction within the enrolled population. Many women and African Americans who have sought to make a career in the army can find their way to promote, blocked or can choose when their contracts will end, which will lead to a greater internal disorder. The way all this is played will still have to be learned, but it can hardly be useful for moral and single cohesion.
Increasing turmoil and friction in the ranks also jeopardize national security. By clicking on great internal disorders, the steps of the Hegsette can undermine the readiness of the troops for the future conflict, such as the war with China over Taiwan – mainly the Pentagon’s main attention. Many of the US strategists also believe that I think the US is more successful in receiving and maintaining allies abroad when its armed forces represent the diverse population of the country. By curling up the outstanding black and women officers and preventing African Americans joining the force, Johset designed the aura intolerance and misogynia, which can complicate the efforts of US -enforcement alliances.
But on the home front that HEGSET’s expectations can have the greatest impact. By releasing the black -zipper, these steps risk turning the military into an increasingly white male power, increasingly differentiated from the diverse population of the country and less representative of their problem and value. Removing officers for their commitment to racial and gender equality “will convey to the American public that their military leadership is political and it will reduce confidence in the military,” – said Kura Sheika, Director for Foreign and Defense Political Studies in the field American Institute of EnterprisesConservative analytical center. “It will damage the set and content, and it will fundamentally change the way the American public looks at its military leadership. I think it’s a terrible idea.
All this refers to the most important question of all, at least in terms of democracy survival: whether Hegeset will obey the potential orders of the White House to use armed, active troops in suppressing public protests. One of his predecessors, Mark T. Esper, stood with Army General Mark A. Mi, the then chairman of the joint chiefs of the staff, refusing Trump’s orders to use active soldiers to defeat peaceful protests in black life in June 2020, in June 2020. . In June 2020 with Both show that this is to violate the Constitution. (Esper was fired by Trump a few months later, and miles were supposed to be the purpose of the future retaliation of Trump was pardon Of which President Biden’s possible crimes on January 20) Ggset seems to have no problems using armed soldiers this way. Asked by democratic senators during his confirmation on this issue, He refused Eliminate the use of death force to stop internal protests.
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