As the warfare in Iran ramps up, Pete Hegseth orders ‘woke review’ of army schools nationwide | EUROtoday

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a overview of U.S. army schools to find out whether or not they’re “too woke,” because the warfare in Iran continues to escalate.

“It’s my job to make sure those who are rising to the highest of ranks are as prepared as humanly possible,” Hegseth stated in a video posted to social media Thursday night time.

“And if we’re pulling officers out of civilian universities because they’re too woke, then we better make sure our own universities are prepared to do the task properly, and we’re going to do that.”

Hegseth’s announcement got here shortly earlier than he turned visibly angered at a press convention Friday morning, throughout which he urged a “patriotic press” to rewrite headlines about the administration’s deadly and costly war.

The proposed college review will be conducted by a special task force that will evaluate senior service colleges, including institutions such as the Army War College, National Defense University and Marine Corps University, to ensure that “the focus is where it belongs,” Hegseth said.

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It will have 90 days to produce a report on whether the schools are “really efficient and… targeted on core nationwide safety points.”

War schools provide a complicated army schooling to senior officers and Pentagon civilians, with a give attention to topics of technique, joint operations, and normal nationwide safety insurance policies. Hegseth stated the overview would search to get rid of all elements of the curriculum that weren’t aligned with such subjects.

“We want military leaders who are critical thinkers that have studied the principles on which our founding fathers established this republic, and they’re educated and prepared to win wars after the wokeness and weakness of Joe Biden’s administration,” Hegseth stated in his video.

“Our war fighters deserve training with integrity where the focus is on the warrior ethos, on deterrence and on strength.”

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Elsewhere throughout his Friday press briefing, Hegseth in contrast Iran’s leaders to “rats” in hiding, boasting: “The U.S. is decimating the radical Iranian regime’s military in a way the world has never seen before.

“We said it would not be a fair fight, and it has not been.”

To date, greater than 15,000 Iranian targets have been hit, obliterating the nation’s air defenses, air power, and navy, whereas its missile capabilities have plummeted by 90 p.c, Hegseth stated.

He warned that Friday, set to be the 14th day of army operations, would be the most intense day of U.S. strikes on Iran up to now.

“Iran’s management is in no higher form. Desperate and hiding, they’ve gone underground, cowering. That’s what rats do,” Hegseth stated. The former Fox News host additionally described Iran’s new chief, Mojtaba Khamenei, because the “so-called not-so-supreme leader” who’s “wounded and likely disfigured.”