Everyone thought it was going to be big. Surely it had to be? Why summon almost 800 generals, admirals and their senior enlisted leaders from their assorted posts around the world, at great expense and inconvenience, risking a potentially devastating decapitation strike to the US military establishment, if not for something of utmost importance?
Instead, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump explained how many of the standards of military conduct – Geneva Convention stuff – would be abandoned by this administration. And that the military would be being deployed against American citizens, but only the ones who live in cities that vote against Trump, and never mind that the Constitution forbids this. Several hundred very serious men and women sat in stone-faced silence until it was all over, then returned to their posts. Their reactions can only be guessed at, but it is unlikely that many of them were happy about the President requiring them to violate their sacred oaths.
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