In a bizarre move on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Trump called in our top 800 military leaders from their stations around the world to lecture them on such things as beard standards, firefighters getting shot off their ladders, and the quality of the paper used in official documents.

Hegseth made it a point of emphasis to rant about how the military had strayed from the “warrior ethos”, claiming that standards had been lowered in order to accommodate women, particularly in combat roles.

I’m no military leader and I never served but my instincts tells me that lecturing seasoned generals who have generations of combined military experience about how they’ve been failing to embody a “warrior ethos” is not the best way to gain their respect – a misstep exacerbated by

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