(Obviously they couldn’t call the new super-department the “Department of War”, because that meant Army and the US Navy would probably rather have sunk their own ships than join something like that.)

what star wars really need is a HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER style submarine thriller

I imagine Pete Hegseth's inability to understand this is probably a big reason why his career stalled out when it did: he was trying to be an O-4 thinking in terms of the 'O-3 test' (or the 'E-6 test') when that wasn't his job anymore.

A colonel is not just a really, really big lieutenant.

In the same manner that the President “may” not deploy his personal paramilitary forces to major American cities and order them to kidnap random people off the streets and disappear them into giant camps in order to support his fascist agenda.

But, well.

Interrogate your beliefs you fools

It’s funny to consider that Hegseth is precisely the sort of person for whom Sun-Tzu actually wrote The Art of War, and is thus the kind of person who fundamentally cannot understand it