It was unclear how #Hegseth, a veteran & former Fox New host who before his confirmation in January had never previously served in a high-level government position, responded to those warnings.
Many of those in Hegseth’s inner circle during his first months in the #Pentagon were combat veterans w/deep experience in the #military but little firsthand knowledge of how the government operates at the highest levels.
Tommy Vietor: "It seems like a big problem that our completely unqualified Fox News weekend anchor turned Secretary of Defense* has fired everyone on his team, leaving the Pentagon in chaos."
*Pete Hegseth
#mismanagement #military #NationalSecurity #politics
Jennifer Hegseth has drawn attention for the access her husband has given her. #Hegseth brought her into two meetings with foreign #military counterparts in February and early March where sensitive information was discussed, a development first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
#NationalSecurity #Trump #Signal #Signalgate
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-brought-his-wife-to-sensitive-meetings-with-foreign-military-officials-c16db0ea
While the #Signal chat created by Waltz for snr ofcls was criticized for sharing details of a #military op on an encrypted but unclassified app, the participants — other than Goldberg of The Atlantic, who appears to have been added accidentally — were snr govt ofcls w/reason to track the progress of the attack.
But some of the participants in the group chat created by #Hegseth were not ofcls w/any apparent need to be given real-time info on details of the op.
#NationalSecurity #Trump #Signalgate
#Hegseth created the separate #Signal group initially as a forum for discussing routine administrative or scheduling information, two of the people familiar with the chat said. The people said Hegseth typically did not use the chat to discuss sensitive #military operations & said it did not include other cabinet-level officials.
#WTF #Hegseth Shared Attack Details in Second #Signal Chat. [Calling him the defense secretary is abhorrent.] The #defense secretary #secdef sent sensitive information about strikes in #Yemen to encrypted group #chat that included his wife & brother, people familiar with the matter said. #nationalsecurity #russia #putin #trump #leadership #military #defensedepartment Included flight schedules for the F/A-18 Hornets targeting the Houthis in Yemen same attack plans shared on a separate Signal chat
3 Russian soldiers escape after mass #desertion attempt in Russia’s Krasnodar
A hundred #Russian #soldiers are reported to have attempted to #defect from a #military unit in the city of #Krasnodar, with 3 managing to escape
Security forces cordoned off the area & no official comment has been made for 12 hours
Reports say that 7 soldiers succeeded in breaking through the fence. Four were later apprehended, while three remain at large.
UK must expand its #Arctic military position, defence review to say
> [..] as the region becomes increasingly contested owing to melting sea ice opening up access
> The document (calls) for significant investment in #drones and cutting-edge technology
> The review has been heavily affected by US President #DonaldTrump’s shift in security policy, including his intention to scale down American #military resources based in Europe https://on.ft.com/4jhnrBp
#UK #NATO #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange
"As Military SATCOM Use Grows, Rivals Vie to Cut SpaceX’s Market Share" by Air & Space Forces Magazine - SpaceX is the leading commercial launch vendor. The US military doesn't want to be locked in by just one vendor, and is encouraging competitors to develop diversified launch capabilities available to them. https://www.airandspaceforces.com/commercial-satcom-space-force-providers/ #satellite #communications #military #space #spacegeek
@mcnado
#Terrorism is a tactic used in Assymetrical Warfare
Every world leader knows how it works & why, bc Franz Fanon explained it decades ago
World leaders pretend they DON'T know they're doing exactly what guerrilla forces want them to do bc it's a mega revenue stream for #Military contractors/donors AND it gins up the patriotic masses
#ManufacturedConsent
And yet, #Europe is not helpless: beneath the surface of slow-moving #diplomacy, something has begun to shift. #Germany, long reluctant to shed its post-war pacifism, is finally stepping into a new era. The Zeitenwende, once dismissed as empty rhetoric, is now backed by real policy: massive increases in defense spending, new procurement plans, and a genuine attempt to rebuild a #military worthy of Europe’s largest economy.
"This is not an anti-Trump protest. … This is not about an individual. This is about an idea that we need to take care of our service members, people who fought for this country and just want to keep serving this country and have access to the benefits that they are owed,"
Well pardon me, but that is a pathetic failure to meet the moment because you wouldn't have to march at all if Trump wasn't forcing a dictatorship with the destructive regime change efforts of his biggest campaign donor directly attacking the very veterans and civil servants you say this is about. If you had made it about the actual moment we're in, I'd have made the effort.
We served with the explicit understanding that America once freed itself from a despot and our entire foundation of government and civil society was built on the idea of avoiding exactly ALL THIS SHIT in the future. The founders didn't come up with an unbreakable system, that's painfully obvious. Once Congress gets unfucked by voters who we hope will finally figure out their mistakes, the U.S. could use this moment to legislatively patch the parts Trump has managed to break. March for THAT! 
#veterans #military #CivilService
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/17/veterans-organizing-call-action-rally-d-day-anniversary-nations-capital.html
#UK #military #BritishArmy #media #archives
'Good news for researchers as an 80 year archive of the British Army’s in-house magazine, SOLDIER, has been digitised and is now available online for free.'
Seems sacrifices members of the military & their families make every day is not enough -
The #military insurance company, #Tricare, is messing with pregnant women's #healthcare.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tricare-military-health-insurance-pregnancy-women-delay-ultrasound-rcna197760
Umm, hello #DefSec? U gonna fix that
& this 
?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tricare-military-health-insurance-pregnancy-women-delay-ultrasound-rcna197760
If people like learning about MRE's, this guy does great reviews of #Military rations. Here you go.
https://youtu.be/qx59deeCKaM?si=tHZ-puwfwc7jPim-
#Food
