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 Townhall: ... One of the first officers to go is the commandant for the United States Coast Guard, who was fired for pushing DEI nonsense and failing to help secure the border (via  Fox News ): The Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard has been terminated over concerns about the border, recruitment concerns and an "erosion of trust," a senior DHS official confirmed to Fox News. Adm. Linda Lee Fagan has been terminated by the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Benjamine Huffman, the official said.  Fagan has demonstrated leadership deficiencies, operational failures and an inability to advance the strategic objectives of the Coast Guard.  These include the failure to address border security threats, insufficient leadership in recruitment and retention, mismanagement in acquiring key acquisitions such as icebreakers and helicopters, excessive focus on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and an "erosion of trust" over the mishandling and cover-up of Operation ...

 Washington Examiner: At the hands of President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin , the nation has witnessed one foreign policy disaster after the next. The duo’s catastrophic decision-making and military execution has left Americans dead, our military vulnerable, and our adversaries emboldened. To right the ship and steer America back on course, the next defense secretary must be a new kind of leader, one that will restore a foreign policy strategy of deterrence and peace through strength. Army National Guard veteran Pete Hegseth is President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for the job and the new kind of leader we need. It comes as no surprise, however, that as the Senate Armed Services Committee prepares for Hegseth’s confirmation hearing, Democrats are deploying their familiar playbook of objections. But their arguments ring hollow given the department’s track record under their watch. Let us examine the facts: Under Austin’s tenure, the Pentagon failed four audit...

 National Review: The Wall Street Journal reported today that the Trump transition team is drafting an executive order to “create a board to purge general officers.” Such a board, the article’s subhead warned, “could upend military review process and raise concerns about politicization of military.” To the first suggestion, on upending the military review process, you will find no shortage of active-duty service members who say, “Hell to the yes.” On the second, the Biden administration’s stewardship of the Pentagon — from throwing it into the abortion debate, to mandating force-wide diversity, equity, inclusion seminars, to promoting climate activism at the expense of real-world mission requirements, to quixotic campaigns to weed out domestic extremists, the list goes on — represents the most extreme politicization of U.S. military forces in modern history. Therein is the inherent challenge that Republicans face in the courtrooms of newsrooms — radical progressive policies are c...

  Miranda Devine @mirandadevine The same Pentagon that refused to carry out President Trump’s sensible request for troops to keep the Capitol safe ahead of a big protest on Jan 6 2021 behaved completely differently seven months later when they complied with President Biden’s absurd request to abandon Bagram air base and conduct evacuations from Afghanistan out of a little unprotected civilian airport in Kabul - with predictably disastrous consequences, including the deaths of 13 US service members and the maiming of dozens more Quote Miranda Devine @mirandadevine · 1h Bombshell transcripts: Trump urged use of troops to protect Capitol on Jan. 6 , but was rebuffed ⁦ @jsolomonReports ⁩ ⁦ @JustTheNews ⁩ https:// justthenews.com/accountability /watchdogs/bombshell-transcripts-trump-urged-use-troops-protect-capitol-jan-6-was … 6:21 AM · Sep 24, 2024 · 20.4K Views Trump was clearly a smarter president than Biden and the leadership of the US military is looking as dim-witted as Biden. S...

 DC Daily Journal: Being commander-in-chief is too much for President Biden. He is way in over his head. Because Joe Biden’s Air Force has collapsed and is forced to make a historically bad decision. In a policy shift announced on Wednesday, the Air Force will be re-activating upwards of 1,000 previously retired airmen to fill important roles, alleviating the service’s recruitment crisis. The Air Force announced that former officers and high-ranking enlisted individuals who served in highly skilled jobs are now eligible to reapply for the Voluntary Retired Return to Active Duty Program, which was revived by Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall. The Air Force is facing “critical manning shortages,” and this action is part of “an effort to leverage the talents” of service retirees, according to the statement. Lt. Gen. Caroline Miller, the Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower, Personnel and Services, stated that the program taps “into a valuable resource of retired members to fill critical...

 Red State: You would think that the Department of Defense (DoD) would have their hands full right now. The war between Russia and Ukraine drags on, war between Israel and Hamas continues, and China continues its saber-rattling over "reunification" with Taiwan. The United States might not be directly involved in all of those conflicts, but we will have some role to play. The Defense Department is concerned about terrorism. But before you get excited over the fact that there might be  someone  at the DoD with their priorities straight, think again. They are not worried about the thousands of potential terrorists sneaking across the southern border. They are worried about home-grown terrorists, you know, the right-wing kind.    ... The DoD's Office of Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC) supervises overseas special operations. Recently,  they invited "all" office  employees to hear Bruce Hoffman, a professor at Georgetown University and sen...

 DC Daily Journal: ... The United States military is already overwhelmed by reacting to foreign threats and isn’t strong enough to handle the most critical risks to American national security, according to research from the Heritage Foundation that was issued on Wednesday. A report card for the U.S. military’s progress in relation to the global operating environment and adversaries’ capabilities, the 2024 Index of U.S. Military Strength, was rated as “weak” overall, according to editor and retired Marine Corps Lt. Col. Dakota Wood. U.S. military shortcomings, including insufficient ammunition and weapon stocks and the capacity to respond to the president’s request to intervene in multiple crises at once, were brought to light in 2023 by the wars in Ukraine and Israel, as well as by the U.S. reaction to conflict exploding across the Middle East. In its current form, the United States military poses a grave threat to the nation’s ability to protect its most important interests, accor...

 Daniel Greenfield: The military recruitment crisis that has crippled our defense capabilities has been talked to death by generals, politicians and pundits who have blamed everything from rising minimum wages to obesity to Gen Z culture for the problem. They have raised enlistment bonuses to unprecedented levels, spent fortunes on ad campaigns that feature lesbian weddings and doubled down on DEI as the answer to the crisis. And yet the crisis has grown worse. That’s because recruitment was a self-inflicted problem caused by a woke racist military. Between 2018 and 2023, white Army recruits, once the mainstay, fell from a bare majority of 56% to a minority at 44% . This was not an unintended effect, but policy. “We are an Army that wants to look like America,” Maj. Gen. Kevin Vereen, the first black head of Army Recruiting Command, had proclaimed. Gen. Gary Brito, the first black head of Army Training and Doctrine Command under whose purview recruiting falls, and the former deput...

 AP: The Pentagon is warning Congress that it is running low on money to replace weapons the U.S. has sent to Ukraine and has already been forced to slow down resupplying some troops, according to a letter sent to congressional leaders. The letter, obtained by The Associated Press, urges Congress to replenish funding for Ukraine. Congress averted a government shutdown by passing a short-term funding bill over the weekend, but the measure dropped all assistance for Ukraine in the battle against Russia. Pentagon Comptroller Michael McCord told House and Senate leaders there is $1.6 billion left of the $25.9 billion Congress provided to replenish U.S. military stocks that have been flowing to Ukraine. The weapons include millions of rounds of artillery, rockets and missiles critical to Ukraine's counteroffensive aimed at taking back territory gained by Russia in the war. In addition, the U.S. has about $5.4 billion left to provide weapons and equipment from its stockpiles. The U.S....

 The Hill: Trump rips Biden on electric Army tanks: ‘They will not be able to go very far’ Can you imagine a tank having to break off a battle for hours of recharging when it could have been refueled in a matter of minutes with gas or diesel? 

 Deroy Murdock: America’s Commander-in-Chief just laid another egg. President Joe Biden wants all Pentagon vehicles to be electric by 2030 – in just six years and seven months. America’s fearless leader previewed this policy on Earth Day 2022. “We’re going to start the process where every vehicle in the United States military, every vehicle, is going to be climate-friendly — every vehicle ,” Biden said in Seattle that April 22. “I mean it.” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm just reiterated this objective. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) asked Granholm at an April 26 Armed Services Committee hearing, “Do you support the military adopting that EV fleet by 2030?” “ I do , and I think we can get there,” Granholm replied. Those who have worn America’s uniform find this jaw-droppingly stupid . (RELATED: JASON ISAAC: The Great Carbon Capture Scam) “Anyone who has even a little experience in military logistics recognizes Joe Biden’s E.V. mandate as a political farce,” House Armed Services Com...

 Political Insider: Cruz Mocks Biden Admin for Pushing All Electric Military Vehicles: Hopefully Our Enemies Will Be Nice Enough to Install Charging Stations ...   ... The Biden Big Green agenda is a clear and present danger to US national security. 

 Fox News: Israel is working to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into its battlefield operations as it looks to lead the way on handling "the biggest game changer" for technology. "The future of defense systems and of military will rely heavily on artificial intelligence," former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. "I'm talking about the analysis of massive data in intelligence," he explained. "I'm talking about operating drones and other types of automatic and autonomous robots. Any country who seeks to be strong has to develop now an AI strategy," which he said he did during his tenure as prime minister. The Israel Defense Forces announced in February that the force has started utilizing AI in its operations, saying new digital methods helped produce "200 new target assets" during a 10-day operation in 2021 to successfully target at least two Hamas commanders, The Je...