Jason B. Whitman

RE: Pete Hegseth as SecWar At this time in American history, Pete Hegseth is the PERFECT person to serve as Secretary of War. I mean that sincerely. I do not know of a living human who is better qualified to serve in that position at this point in American history. I’ll explain why. America’s military spent 20+ years engaged in a GWOT battle that, after its first few years, became a political battle where the military was not the right tool in the DIME-FIL* toolbox. “Nation building,” ridiculously restrictive, JAG-inspired rules of engagement, social justice experimentation, Military Transition Teams and Security Forces Advisory and Assistance Teams, and the bastardization of combat arms units away from their mission essential tasks all created a U.S. military that was risk averse to a crippling degree, lacked adequate training and equipment readiness levels for high intensity conflict, had broken morale and poor retention/recruiting, and was more concerned about DEI than closing with and destroying the enemy. The military that Donald Trump inherited from Joe Biden was a broken shell of the military that entered the GWOT in 2001. It had lost its focus on lethality, valued skin color and genitalia more than warfighting competency, and was not even able to fully recognize its own missions in a world rife with peer competitors bent on high-intensity global or regional domination, such as China and Russia. Yes, low-intensity conflict was still on the menu in places like Yemen, Syria and the battles against narco-terrorists, but a military trained for high intensity conflict can adjust to low intensity conflict quickly, but it does not work so well the other way around. As Donald Trump took office, what America needed was a Secretary of War who was intimately familiar with these failures; somebody who had fought those GWOT battles and understood our failings deep in his or her soul. Such a person could not be one of the Perfumed Princes who engineered and would repeat our failures (such as Lloyd Austin). Instead it needed to be someone with muddy boots who had experienced the mess we had become at a deeply personal, tactical level. Moreover, it needed to be someone who understood information operations and the climate of global, instantaneous messaging that is our new day-to-day. This person did not need to have a comprehensive understanding of military procurement and the military/industrial complex that accompanies Beltway jockeying with Congress and defense contractors—those skills are widely available and could easily be obtained by hiring effective subordinates with the same vision of a military that needed to be once again focused on lethality. What might that person look like? Well, he or she should have the following qualifications: -A military career based in training and skills involving killing the enemy up close and personal in the most efficient manner possible. An Infantryman, if possible. A Combat Infantryman Badge would be double plus good. -Muddy boots experience leading troops in direct combat in Iraq and/or Afghanistan. -Deep experience in leading one of the failed coalition training missions in Iraq or Afghanistan. -Someone who shared the dark personal struggles of every veteran who had come home from our endless wars. -A final military rank that meant he or she was never a Perfumed Prince and who was never polluted by the Beltway mind virus that seems to infect every soldier, sailor, airmen, Marine or Guardian who pins on a star. -Deep experience in information operations, such as being a best-selling author on military affairs or being a military expert on a major news network. Those are the qualifications that were needed to turn America’s military around and restore it to being the premier warfighting force in world history. One American and one American only had those qualifications: Pete Hegseth. And that man is doing everything I could have ever hoped for to restore the pride and skill we had lost. But please realize this: Hegseth is a threat to anyone who prefers the Obama/Biden vision of a social justice military. He is a threat to anyone who thinks R2P** is a core competency for the American military. He is a threat to anyone who thinks enriching the military/industrial complex is more important than winning wars. Basically, he is a threat to anyone who sees the military as a politicized force serving like commissars in the Soviet Army. In other words, Hegseth is a threat to Democrats everywhere. Which is why it is so very, VERY important that the Democrat/Media Complex smear him in every way imaginable and at every opportunity. When you see and hear the abject lies of the Sedition 6 and their ilk, and when you see and hear wholly fabricated, libelous stories like the "Kill Them All" Hoax, realize why this is happening. These fake news stories are designed to attack and defeat an existential threat to the Leftist vision of a social justice American military. Like Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth is an existential threat to the Leftist evils that nearly defeated America and the Constitution via Barack Obama and Joe Biden. And it takes a strong man to withstand the onslaught of the Deep State, with all of its lies, libel and propaganda. Donald Trump is one man who withstood that fire of infamous defamation. Pete Hegseth is another. We all him our gratitude for the personal cost he is enduring in the name of freedom, and please pray for him. Thank you for your attention to this matter. * * * * DIME-FIL = the “elements of national power” under U.S. military doctrine, or: diplomatic, informational, military, economic, financial, intelligence, and law enforcement. ** R2P = “Responsibility to Protect,” i.e. a Leftist, globalist doctrine popularized under the Obama Administration that says the U.S. military has a core mission of protecting foreign populations against the deprivations of their own or neighboring governments or warlords. Although not totally illegitimate, it prioritizes the national interests and lives of foreigners over the national interests of the USA and the lives of American servicemen and servicewomen.