@Passerby #235316
Notably from snippets I’ve come across he’s instituted changes that focus on getting soldiers to slim down and lose weight in superficial aesthetic terms to “improve performance”
As if they wanted to play toy soldiers IRL.
IT’s interesting that it was an unabashed draft-dodger who thought that “Department of War” looked more “badass”: his predecessors, which included people who served in the military, often on the battlefield (JFK even had his father call on friends to have him fight!) never thought that “Department of Defence” was beneath them.
And it was the same crowd who extolled the virtues of the “virile Russian military” compared to the “they/them army”, basing themselves on videos of Russian soldiers doing performative bullshit. Well, we can ask them how long lasted the “special military operation”? The only use of a military whose officers callously treat their soldiers and embezzle their equipment is to terrorize the civilian populations and commit war crimes.