When President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with 800 generals, admirals and their senior enlisted advisers at Quantico, Virginia, last month , there were many messages the two leaders provided. Some of those messages included the importance of loyalty and obedience, physical standards including grooming and fitness, and a cry for revival of a “warrior ethos.”

Trump told the generals and admirals that crime in U.S. cities was a “war from within” and the military could use cities as “training grounds.”

Unfortunately, those were not the messages you would expect to be conveyed to our military’s most senior leaders. Instead, you would expect our president and secretary of defense to discuss the geopolitical threats they see our nation facing, the weapons needed to ad

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