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  • Calling in the Generals: What Hegseth’s 'all-hands' meeting should — and shouldn’t — mean

    09/29/2025 10:48:47 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 7 replies
    American Thinker ^ | September 29, 2025 | Robert Maginnis
    Tomorrow, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth brings hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals to Quantico for what amounts to a mass leadership formation. The agenda is opaque, the logistics unusual, and the stakes high. With President Trump now planning to attend, the gathering risks becoming as much a signal about civil-military relations as it is about readiness. What should Americans take from it — and what should our flag officers hear? First, let’s dispense with the novelty. Large, in-person convocations of nearly the entire general/flag officer corps are rare. Reporting indicates Hegseth intends to hammer “warrior ethos,” grooming and standards...
  • Hegseth Says Honors for Soldiers in Wounded Knee Massacre Will Remain

    09/29/2025 12:54:48 PM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 54 replies
    New York Times ^ | September 27, 2025 | Francesca Regalado
    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday said that Medals of Honor for soldiers who took part in an 1890 massacre of Native Americans would not be revoked. More than 300 Lakota Sioux men, women and children were killed by U.S. Army soldiers on Dec. 29, 1890, in one of the deadliest attacks on Native Americans by the United States military. The Lakota people had gathered to resist government control in an area of South Dakota that is now part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation..... In 2019, Democratic lawmakers, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, introduced legislation to revoke...