Washington: Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, portrayed the US Army. UU. Tuesday as too fat, too focused on the ideas of “leftist” awakening “, and in need of a great shake with emphasis on being hard” war fighters. “
The speech, to an auditorium of hundreds of generals and Almirantes called Virginia from all over the world, promoted a plan to end what the first Fox News The host said it had been “decades of decomposition.”
When walking on a stage in front of a giant American flag that reflected his square pocket, Hegseth pointed to “stupid rules of commitment” on the battlefield and “fat troops” at home, asking the military to look back to the 1990 standards to inspire.
He said that he wanted an army focused on lethality, not racial or gender diversity, in order to say that the troops “walked in egg peels for fear of complaints about behavior.
“This speech is about fixing decades of decomposition, some obvious, some hidden,” Hegseth told the hundreds of senior officers gathered for the highly unusual meeting.
“The silly and reckless political leaders established the course of the wrong compass, and we lost our path. We became the” Woke department. “But no longer,” he said.
Hegseth described several changes he wants to make as part of his efforts to remodel the military, recapitating some previous ads.
He requested the strict application of cleaning standards, which includes a one -year limit in razor exemptions that are used disproportionately by black troops, as well as for the highest current male physical conditioning standard to apply to all combat forces.
“The standards must be uniform, gender and high neutrals, if not, they are not standards. They are only suggestions, suggestions that kill our sons and daughters,” said Hegseth.
He criticized the troops out of form, saying: “It is exhausting to look at the combat formations, or really any formation, and see fat troops. In the same way, it is completely unacceptable to see the general generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon.”
“Hunt and kill”
Hegesh also said he would institute what he called “no more walking on the policy of eggshells”, which implies “no more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complaints, no more repeated demanding, no more reputation of spots.”
He specifically criticized the Inspector General of the Pentagon, who launched an investigation into its use of the sign of the civil messaging application for classified information this year, saying that the office has been “armed” and will be reviewed.
Hegseth said that strict rules for when force can be used, measures that aim to prevent civilians from being killed, are a thing of the past.
“We challenge the hands of our war combatants to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and dominant compromise, only common sense, maximum lethality and authority for war combatants,” he said.
This approach has recently been demonstrated in the Caribbean, where the United States army has killed more than a dozen people on strikes about alleged smugglers traveling in boats.
The Trump administration has not yet publicly revealed evidence to support their claims that the attacked were smuggled or that they represented an immediate danger to the United States.
Hegesh warned that anyone who agrees should quit smoking.
“If the words I am talking today are making your heart sink, then you must do the honorable and give up,” he told the officers.
The Trump administration has already purged several senior officers this year, including the president of the General Chief of Staff Charles “CQ” Brown, who was fired without explanation in February, as well as the heads of the Navy and the Coast Guard.
