| AN ANTI-WOKE WARRIOR AS SECDEF: If Fox News host Pete Hegseth becomes the next defense secretary — either by Senate confirmation or recess appointment — the U.S. military will be led by a decorated combat veteran who believes diversity policies are degrading America's military might, that women are dragging down the effectiveness of ground combat units, and that transgender troops have no place in the military. In announcing his pick of the 44-year-old Hegseth — co-host of Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends Weekend and a former infantry captain in the Army National Guard who did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan — President-elect Donald Trump touted his recent book The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free in which Hegseth excoriates the current military leadership as too focused on their careers and woke ideology, instead of winning the next war. "The book reveals the leftwing betrayal of our Warriors, and how we must return our Military to meritocracy, lethality, accountability, and excellence," Trump said in his statement. "You can't win a war if every soldier's out for himself, and especially if a leader is so focused on covering his ass that he can't be honest about failure," Hegseth writes in his book published earlier this year. "Our generals are not ready for this moment in history. Not even close. The next president of the United States needs to radically overhaul Pentagon senior leadership to make us ready to defend our nation and defeat our enemies. Lots of people need to be fired." Hegseth's book spent nine weeks on the New York Times best-sellers list, including two weeks at number one. It's no doubt going to go back to number one with a bullet, as my Kindle download last night was undoubtedly only one of thousands as people scramble to find out just what Hegseth is all about. TRUMP PICKS FOX NEWS HOST PETE HEGSETH FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 'SUPPORTING DEI MEANS SOLDIERS DIE': On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly promised to fire woke generals and rid the ranks of transgender troops. "If you want to have a sex change or a social justice seminar, then you can do it somewhere else, but you're not going to do it in the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, Space Force, or the United States Marines. Sorry," Trump said at an Aug. 21 rally in Asheboro, North Carolina. "The military brass that led these absurd and insulting initiatives will likewise be removed, and they will no longer be in command. They're going to be gone, gone so fast." In Hegseth, Trump has found a like-minded culture warrior with equal disdain for the diversity, equity, and inclusion policies of the Biden Pentagon. "DEI amplifies differences, creates grievances, and excludes anyone who won't bow down to the cultural Marxist revolution ripping through the Pentagon. Forget DEI — the acronym should be DIE or IED. It will kill our military worse than any IED ever could," Hegseth wrote in Chapter 8. "The Left isn't just interested in purging Trump supporters. Their ideology is based on marginalizing whatever's normal, because they think 'normal' is always oppressive. By their logic, the military runs on the most normal and most oppressive thing of all: strong men. Just being a guy who hits the gym means you're oppressing everyone around you." he wrote. "A big reason for fewer training accidents is — less training. More time than ever is being spent on social justice PowerPoint moralizing — and meeting those metrics in today's military is the most important standard to meet," he wrote. "Every unit knows that social justice, trans, gender, woke training is the top priority. Not doing this training, or not doing it properly, will get a commander or junior leader fired. Not doing real field training becomes secondary." 'TRANSGENDER PEOPLE SHOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED TO SERVE': In other chapters, Hegseth expanded on his views that women were not suited for ground combat and that their presence was a distraction to men who have been acculturated to treat women differently and serve as their protectors. "The Left is at war with the reality of differences between men and women, and the Right, in a misguided effort to be chivalrous and inclusive, has forgotten basic truths about reality. Conservatives have caved in the face of self-evident realities about the limitations women face in combat. Common sense, out the window," he wrote. "The gender integration of these traditionally male spheres, coupled with our loss of a Christian ethos for God's creation, means we've started to think of men and women as essentially the same animal with different levels of body strength. That's particularly dangerous when it comes to combat because the differences aren't just physical," Hegseth noted in a chapter titled "The (Deadly) Obsession with Women Warriors." "The Left doesn't praise the exceptional women who demonstrate martial qualities, but rather redefines the goals we need in the military to be more conducive to female success," he wrote. "The problem is that a more empathetic and effeminate military isn't a more efficient one. It's a more inefficient one." And when it comes to transgender troops, Hegseth argued it's time to give them all the boot, as Trump attempted to do in his first term. "If you want to dress in drag and be 'affirmed,' then move to San Francisco. But our American military has no business falsely advertising anything that is contrary to its warfighting ethos, regardless of their recruitment goals or political expectations," he ranted. "For the recruits, for the military, and primarily for the security of the country, transgender people should never be allowed to serve. It's that simple." CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Good Wednesday morning, and welcome to Jamie McIntyre's Daily on Defense, written and compiled by Washington Examiner National Security Senior Writer Jamie McIntyre (@jamiejmcintyre) and edited by Christopher Tremoglie. Email here with tips, suggestions, calendar items, and anything else. Sign up or read current and back issues at DailyonDefense.com. If signing up doesn't work, shoot us an email, and we'll add you to our list. And be sure to follow me on Threads and/or on X @jamiejmcintyre. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP OR READ BACK ISSUES OF DAILY ON DEFENSE NOTE TO READERS: After this week, Daily on Defense will be on an extended Thanksgiving break from Nov. 18-29. HAPPENING TODAY: A key battle will be fought behind closed doors in the Senate today, as Republicans vote by secret ballot on who should replace Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as leader when they take control of the Senate in January. In a post on X Sunday, Trump demanded that "Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position" must agree to recess appointments, which would require the Senate to cede its Constitutional "advice and consent" role. South Dakota Sen. John Thune, Texas Sen. John Cornyn, and Florida Sen. Rick Scott are competing for the position. While all three are seeking Trump's favor, it's unclear if the winner will accede to his demand to bypass the traditional confirmation process, including hearings and committee votes. Trump argues that he needs the unusual recess appointments to "get people confirmed in a timely manner," even though Republicans will have a 52 or 53-vote majority and should be able to confirm key positions on day one. MCCONNELL SUCCESSOR SHROUDED IN UNCERTAINTY AHEAD OF MONUMENTAL SENATE VOTE ALSO TODAY: BIDEN MEETS WITH TRUMP: President Joe Biden is scheduled to meet with incoming President Donald Trump at the White House at 11 a.m. In remarks made the day after the election, Biden struck a magnanimous tone, congratulating Trump in a phone call despite the animosity of the campaign. Biden "assured him that I would direct my entire administration to work with his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition. That's what the American people deserve." "Something I hope we can do no matter who you voted for is see each other not as adversaries but as fellow Americans, bring down the temperature," Biden said. "I also hope we can lay to rest the question about the integrity of the American electoral system. It is honest, it is fair, and it is transparent. And it can be trusted, win or lose." "President Trump looks forward to the meeting, and very much appreciated the call," his campaign said in a statement. HOUSE GOP LEADERS CONCERNED FOR SLIM MAJORITY WITH TRUMP POACHING MEMBERS WSJ BOMBSHELL: The Wall Street Journal says it's seen a draft executive order — among those Trump might sign on his first day in office — that would establish a so-called "warrior board" of retired senior military personnel to identify three-star and four-star officers that Trump should consider firing. The board, consisting of retired generals and noncommissioned officers, reportedly would identify 'woke generals and admirals' who lack 'requisite leadership qualities' to serve in Trump's Pentagon because of their support and promotion of DEI policies. Trump has already said he wants the resignations of "every single senior military official who touched the Afghanistan disaster" as soon as he takes office. "I want their resignations immediately. And I want them on the desk in the Oval Office, the Resolute Desk. I want them on at 12 o'clock, Inauguration Day. Everybody involved with that disaster," he told a cheering crowd at his August rally in North Carolina. "This housecleaning will be a signal to the entire world, and the American military and everybody else. They want people to be held accountable for failure and incompetence. And it's just not acceptable that something like that could happen." PANETTA: 'WE DON'T NEED … SOME KIND OF VIGILANTE HIT TEAM': The idea of creating an outside board of inquisitors to ferret out officers deemed insufficiently supportive of the president's agenda drew immediate pushback from former national security who say it needlessly and unfairly politicizes the military. "The military swears an oath to the Constitution, not to a political party, not to the president, but to the Constitution. And we ought to keep that separation in place," said former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on CNN. "There's plenty of laws on the books to go after people who are unfit to be a general. And we don't need to burden the Defense Department or the military with some kind of vigilante hit team in the White House." Civilian control of the military is a bedrock principle of American democracy. Military officers are barred by law from making any contentious remarks about the commander in chief, in public or private. They are duty-bound to salute smartly and carry out any legal order from their commander in chief. The president always has the prerogative to relieve any general or admiral who fails to follow orders. "It would obviously create a chilling effect," Panetta said of the proposed review board. "I think what's involved here is anger about what retired officers have said. Retired officers are free, they can say whatever they want. But in the military, they can't say whatever they want. So, I think the president needs to understand that." "I understand there are concerns about things the Biden administration did in the woke area, in the military, and there's a way to solve that particular problem, and that's to sit the generals down and say there's a new sheriff in town, we're not doing that woke stuff anymore," former Trump national security adviser John Bolton said in a separate interview on CNN. "I think they would say, yes, sir, and that would be the end of it." "But this idea that you're now going to review the generals with some indication there's a political loyalty test, I think, is not just a mistake for the incoming Trump administration. This risks very significantly wrecking our success in keeping the military nonpolitical," Bolton said. "The way we protect our country is by having a military that responds to their duties and responds to the Constitution and is not a military that is somehow Hitler-esque and whose loyalty somehow goes to the president before it goes to the Constitution," Panetta said. "That's not what our country is all about." CABINET WATCH: With a flurry of announcements (and one unofficial leak), President-elect Donald Trump is moving quickly to nominate his Cabinet, and appoint key officials to his administration. Here's the line-up so far. - Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), secretary of state (not officially announced)
- Pete Hegseth, secretary of defense
- John Ratcliffe, CIA director
- Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL), national security adviser
- Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD),secretary of homeland security
- Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) ambassador to the United Nations.
- Mike Huckabee, ambassador to Israel
- Steven Witkoff, special envoy to the Middle East
- Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff
- Stephen Miller, deputy White House chief of staff for policy
- William McGinley, White House counsel
- Tom Homan, 'border czar'
- Former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), EPA administrator
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It’s working AI.com: Moving Space Command to Huntsville Will Be One of Trump's First Acts, Alabama Congressman Says Air & Space Forces Magazine: Fresh F-15E Fighters Arrive in Middle East to Replace Departing Jets Air & Space Forces Magazine: Will DOD's New Cybersecurity Program Stifle Small Businesses or Get Them to Tighten Up? Air & Space Forces Magazine: US Strikes Iranian-Backed Groups in Syria After Attacks on American Troops The War Zone: KC-135 Tanker with Artificial Intelligence Copilot Set to Fly Next Year THE CALENDAR: WEDNESDAY | NOVEMBER 13 8:30 a.m. 918 F St. NW — The Hill discussion: “Veterans Voices,” with Senate Veterans’ Affairs ranking member Jerry Moran (R-KS); Rep. Morgan Luttrell (R-TX); Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA); retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Brian Kelly, president and CEO of the Military Officers Association of America; Terrence Hayes, press secretary at the Veterans Affairs Department; Eric Eversole, president of Hiring Our Heroes; Allison Jaslow, CEO of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America; Cindy Noel, assistant director of field operations at the Veterans of Foreign Wars; Jennifer Silva, chief program officer at the Wounded Warrior Project; and Raul Vargas, chairman, CEO and founder of the American Latino Veterans Association https://thehill.com/events/4921501-veterans-voices/ 9 a.m. 1700 Army Navy Dr., Arlington, Virginia — Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies "Airpower Futures Forum," with Gen. David Allvin; Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Koscheski; and Lt. Gen. David Harris, deputy chief of staff of Air Force Futures, https://mitchellaerospacepower.org/event/2024-airpower-futures-forum 9:45 a.m.1030 15th St. NW — Atlantic Council discussion of a new report: “Avoiding Entanglement: G20 Responses in a Taiwan Crisis,” with Matthew Mingey, Rhodium Group associate director; Claudia Trevisan, Brazil-China Business Council executive director; and Logan Wright, Rhodium Group partner and director of China markets research https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/avoiding-entanglement 10 a.m. — Arab Center virtual discussion: “Post-Election Assessment: U.S. Election Results and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy and the Gaza War,” with Lara Friedman, Foundation for Middle East Peace president; Josh Paul, A New Policy president; Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Democracy for the Arab World Now; and Yousef Munayyer, Arab Center senior fellow https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register 12 p.m. — Association of the U.S. Army virtual discussion: “Strengthening the Army Profession Through Healthy Minds and Bodies,” with retired Army Master Sgt. Chaplain Tom Solhjim; Daniel Thomas, chef; and Marshall Williams, founder and president of West Point Resources https://www.ausa.org/events/noon-report/strengthening-army-profession 12:30 p.m. 2799 Richmond Hwy., Arlington, Virginia — Naval Submarine League 2024 Symposium and Industry Update: “Posture for the Future,” with Adm. Bill Houston, director of Naval Reactors; Vice Adm. Rob Gaucher, commander of Submarine Force; and Rear Adm. Jonathan Rucker, program executive officer for Attack Submarines https://navalsubleague.org/events/asiu/ 12:45 p.m. 2650 Virginia Ave. NW — Defense One discussion: “The State of Defense Business," with Rep. Robert Wittman (R-VA); and Andrew Hunter, assistant Air Force secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics https://events.defenseone.com/state-of-defense-business 2:30 p.m. — American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research virtual discussion: “Countering China’s Military Buildup,” with Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) https://www.aei.org/events/countering-chinas-military-buildup 4 p.m. — Axios discussion: “The Future of Defense: The Mega-Decade,” with Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ).; Defense Undersecretary for Acquisition and Sustainment William LaPlante; former Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI)., head of defense at Palantir; former Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX); former Defense Undersecretary for Policy Michele Flournoy, co-founder and managing partner at WestExec Advisors; Ryan Brukardt, senior partner at McKinsey & Company; Brian Schimpf, co-founder and CEO of Anduril Industries; Ryan Tseng, co-founder and CEO of Shield AI; Colin Demarest, Axios future of defense reporter; and Mike Allen, Axios co-founder https://axiosthefutureofdefense.splashthat.com/ 6:30 p.m. 701 Constitution Ave. NW, — Friends of the National World War II Memorial; the National Archives; and the National Archives Foundation discussion: “Honoring the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge,” with retired Army Tank Crewman Harry Miller, veteran of the Battle of the Bulge and World War II; retired Army Col. Frank Cohn, veteran of the Battle of the Bulge and World War II; Alex Kershaw, resident historian of the Friends of the National World War II Memorial; and Jane Droppa, chair of the Friends of the National World War II Memorial https://archivesfoundation.org/events/80th-anniversary-of-the-battle-of-the-bulge/ THURSDAY | NOVEMBER 14 7 a.m. 2799 Richmond Hwy., Arlington, Virginia — Naval Submarine League Symposium and Industry Update: “Posture for the Future,” with Rep. Robert Wittman (R-VA); Rear Adm. Douglas Adams, program executive officer, Undersea Warfare Systems; and Vice Adm. Johnny Wolfe, director, Strategic Systems Programs https://navalsubleague.org/events/asiu 8:45 a.m. 999 Ninth St. NW — American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security 34th Review of the Field of National Security Law Continuing Legal Education Conference: "National Security Law in the Era of Great Power Competition,” with former Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI); retired Adm. James Winnefeld, chair, President’s Intelligence Advisory Board https://events.americanbar.org/event/cbc 9:30 a.m. — Center for Strategic and International Studies virtual discussion: "What to Expect from Trump 2.0 for Korea?” with Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post Tokyo bureau chief; Jeongmin Kim, NK News lead correspondent; Victor Cha, CSIS Korea chair; and Mark Lippert, CSIS nonresident senior adviser https://www.csis.org/events/what-expect-trump 9:30 p.m. — Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies virtual discussion: “The U.S. Election – Where Does It Leave Europe?” with Majda Ruge, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations; Nathalie Tocci, director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali; and Renaud Dehousse, SAIS Europe rector https://sais.jhu.edu/campus-events 10 a.m. — Middle East Institute virtual discussion: “Rethinking the U.S. Response to Iran’s Levers of Destabilizing Regional Influence,” with Nadwa Al-Dawsari, MEI non-resident scholar; Robert Ford, MEI senior fellow; Charles Lister, senior fellow and director of the MEI Syria and Countering Terrorism & Extremism Program; Paul Salem, MEI vice president for international engagement; and Patricia Karam, MEI non-resident scholar and senior adviser https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register 10 a.m. — Wilson Center Global Europe Program virtual discussion: “Surviving and Thriving: Ukraine’s Economy During and After the War,” with former Ukrainian Minister of Finance Natalie Jaresko; Artem Gergun, adviser to Rada Economic Affairs Committee Chairman Dmytro Natalukha; and Mariana Budjeryn, senior research associate, Harvard University Belfer Center Project on Managing the Atom https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/surviving-and-thriving-ukraines-economy 12 p.m. — New America virtual book discussion: Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, with author Erica Gaston, Columbia University adjunct professor https://www.newamerica.org/future-security/events/illusions-of-control 1 p.m. 1616 Rhode Island Ave. — Center for Strategic and International Studies discussion: “Readying the Navy’s Platforms: More Players on the Field,” with Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. James Kilby https://www.csis.org/events/readying-navys-platforms 2:30 p.m. 2247 Rayburn — Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe hearing: “Axis of Aggressors: Russia, China and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Against Ukraine,” with Peter Mattis, Jamestown Foundation president; Claire Chu, principal analyst for geoeconomic threat intelligence at Janes; Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Center for a New American Security senior fellow; and Behnam Ben Taleblu, FFD senior fellow https://www.youtube.com/live 4 p.m. 1030 15th St. NW — Atlantic Council discussion: “Putting AI to Work for National Security," with acting Navy Chief Technology Officer Justin Fanelli, technical director of PEO Digital; Caitlin Dohrman, CEO of Tangram Flex; Mihai Filip, CEO of Oves Enterprise; and Sean Moriarty, CEO of Primer.ai https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/putting-ai-to-work FRIDAY | NOVEMBER 15 10 a.m. — Henry Stimson Center virtual discussion: “Post U.S. Election: Compromise or Confrontation with Iran?” with Fatemah Aman, Middle East Institute nonresident senior fellow; Nicole Grajewski, fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Nuclear Policy Program; Naysan Rafati, International Crisis Group; Iran senior analyst; and Behnam Ben Taleblu, Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior fellow https://www.stimson.org/event/post-u-s-election 9 a.m. 999 Ninth St. NW — American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security 34th Review of the Field of National Security Law Continuing Legal Education Conference: “National Security Law in the Era of Great Power Competition,” with former Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), chairwoman of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy; White House Special Adviser on Artificial Intelligence Ben Buchanan https://events.americanbar.org/event 10 a.m. 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW — Wilson Center Cold War International History Project discussion: “Triggering the Cold War: New Perspectives on Misperceptions and Misjudgments,” with Zhihua Shen, director of the East China Normal University at Shanghai’s Center for Cold War International History Studies https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/triggering-cold-war 11 a.m. 1957 E St. NW — George Washington University Institute for Korean Studies Korea Policy Forum: “Perspectives on the U.S.-Republic of Korea Alliance after the U.S. Presidential Election,” with former ROK Foreign Affairs Minister Park Jin https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/korea-policy-forum 12:30 p.m. 1957 E St. NW — George Washington University discussion: “The 2024 Elections in Europe and the U.S.: Implications for Democracy and Foreign Policy,” with William Drozdiak, global fellow at the Wilson Center Global Europe Program; Idrees Kahloon, Washington bureau chief for The Economist; and Kimberly Morgan, GWU professor of political science and director of GWU’s European and Eurasian Studies Program https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/the-2024-elections-in-europe 4 p.m. 1616 Rhode Island Ave. NW — Center for Strategic and International Studies book discussion: Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security, with author Sherri Goodman, former deputy Defense undersecretary for environmental security; former Deputy Defense Secretary Rudy de Leon; and retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Arnold Punaro https://www.csis.org/events/threat-multiplier-climate-military-leadership | | | | "DEI amplifies differences, creates grievances, and excludes anyone who won't bow down to the cultural Marxist revolution ripping through the Pentagon. Forget DEI. The acronym should be DIE or IED. It will kill our military worse than any IED ever could." | | Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick to be defense secretary, writing in his 2024 book, The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free |
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