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It appears Hegseth is targeting senior military officers (general officers and those senior officers -- mostly colonels / O-5 / O-6 -- attending graduate level / advanced studies on their way to becoming general officers).
I know exactly what Hegseth is demanding: he wants war fighters to be trained in war fighting, not diplomacy and statecraft. The war department is not the state department.
I had first-hand experience in exactly what Hegseth is concerned with. To some extent, he can be accused of "throwing out the baby with the bathwater," but he wants warfighters to be trained in warfighting, not diplomacy.
Until I know the details, I can't comment any more than what I've already said on this new directive. It was already known that he was going to do this; the surprise is how quickly he made his decision.
