We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement, just common sense, maximum lethality and authority for warfighters
War unleashes dark forces which usually are restrained in peacetime. Robert Heinlein from all things has Zim tell in Starship Trooper that war, as a political tool, has to be limited by the political authority (unfortunately, said sequence was turned into Zim sadistically launching a knife into a soldier’s hand); but he went to Annapolis and so Hegseth must think that he was an “egghead”…
HEgseth also wants to do away with anti-bullying and anti-harassment rules.
So, in short, we’ve a military told to unleash its violence without any limits, even the ones recognized by Clausewitz, and its officers have been freed of any constraint on the treatment of their subordinates. For a Christian Nationalist, Hegseth seems really keen to do a remake of the 1930 Imperial Japanese Army. Here’re the results…