It's an illegal order, assume it would trigger impeachment or dismissal and punishment under civilian law, not UCMJ.
Two things here.
One, you don't sit there and whine about media coverage and headlines if things are going well.
Two, the administration is just outright saying that they fully expect Ellison to use CNN to be a Trumpist propaganda organ.
www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/i...
Hegseth: Why do the headlines say inflammatory things like “war intensifies”?
Pentagon official press release 3 days ago: Hegseth says war intensifies
Ground forces in Iran would be the final betrayal of everything MAGA believed he wouldn't do
But I wonder if the negotiations were ever intended to get anywhere.
Calm down.
For people who actually want to know what senior military education is, and what places like the Naval War College does, here you go. Written last summer by current faculty:
www.usni.org/magazines/pr...
The original 1881 charge to the Naval War College was to study all questions of war, and the PREVENTION of war
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
How I miss them
If I were Hegseth, I'd close every war college before they had time to add him to the curriculum.
One of the problems with the War Colleges is that everyone is mandated to go, and there's no real admissions process, so it's basically like teaching an open-enrollment program.
Well, *I* was wrong too :)
Anyway, apologies! Long day here :)
After I flamed this guy, someone pointed out (rightly) that the USAF schools are in the same place in AL.
Well, shit, that's right. :)
But their schools (IIRC, or used to be) are taught by two faculties, and not the cost-efficient way we did it in RI.
So there.
Yes, but taught by two separate faculties (IIRC). So, fair enough, they're both in AL, but they don't get the cost savings we did in RI. (At least, that's what we used to point to out to the J7.)
Gotcha. But you can understand where it might have seemed... a-holish :)
Hmm
Leavenworth is what convinced Petraeus that war colleges were a problem: He was a straight-A student there, then went to Princeton and got his ass kicked with Cs. He wrote later that it was the best thing to happen to him in terms of his educational development.
The goal is to destroy them.
“Don’t know shit about your enemy. Assume he is a stupid baby.”
—Sun Tzu
blocked, can't see it
It's tricky. I was an only child; my siblings were half-siblings much older from my father's earlier marriage. By the time I came along, they were adults. So, an only - but with four half-sibs
"These people were not hired to be serious. They were not hired to be professional. They were hired to support Donald Trump, never to say 'No' to him and to conduct the affairs of state...as if this is just a big internet fight where the guy with the funniest meme wins." - @radiofreetom.bsky.social
Close the Straits? Who could have predicted that?
TONIGHT: The new Supreme Leader of Iran makes his first public statement, saying the Strait of Hormuz must remain closed – oil and stock prices drop: what the war's economic fallout means for Americans – urgency over DHS shutdown hits a new level as lines grow at airports and the Iran war continues.
I'll be having coffee in my bunny slippers while you're at work in the morning. It evens out.
Also, the guy tapped to do this BS review is Anthony Tata, someone so extreme that the Senate rejected his nomination back in Trump 45. But this time, they caved. Elections have consequences.
I hope the first thing this task force does is inform Pete Hegseth about what happens in the war colleges he's never attended - or apparently, even visited - because all this stuff isn't it.
He has no idea what he's talking about here, but that's no surprise.
