WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned more than 800 of the country’s top brass to a military base in Virginia on Tuesday to voice a familiar litany of culture war talking points and criticize a military that they complained had become distracted by political correctness.

The rare and highly anticipated call-up drew the country’s military commanders, who flew in from Asia, Europe and points between on short notice. The president delivered a rambling address that including familiar talking points and critiques, and also Trump’s revelation that he had told Hegseth to use U.S. cities where he has deployed troops as “training grounds” for the military.

It was unclear why, with a shutdown of the federal government looming, Trump and his defense secreta

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