According to CCTV News on October 6, recently, nearly a thousand high-level U.S. military generals from around the world who were urgently recalled by the U.S. Defense Secretary participated in a mysterious "summit" around Washington, D.C. that the U.S. media called "unprecedented". U.S. Defense Secretary Hagerseth announced at the meeting that the U.S. military must make major reforms.
The U.S. media described the meeting as “rare and highly politized,” while the British magazine Economist said the move was aimed at paving the way for an “internal war.”
What will the military reform change?
On September 30, local time, the U.S. Naval Corps Base in Pattyco, Virginia, with 1,000 U.S. military current generals stationed around the world, was urgently recalled.
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Comprehensively eliminate "diversification policies"
US Defense Secretary th announced at the meeting that the US military must make major reforms,Comprehensively eliminate the “diversity policy” (DEI) that weakens the destructive power of the “war ministry”.
The reform plan mainly includes:
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Testing of active U.S. soldiers twice a year;
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Active military personnel must undergo physical training every day of service.
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Reduce online courses and increase actual combat and shooting training;
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Reform the promotion system to promote excellent talents based on performance and capabilities;
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Abolish the “zero defect” culture so that officers are free from complaints or political pressure whenining discipline and standards.
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Cut your hair short, shave your beard, and be strict about your appearance
It is worth noting that in the reform measures of HertzThere are strict requirements for external appearance.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Hegseth:Frankly, it’s disgusting to see fat soldiers in the battle squad or any squad. Similarly, it’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and navy generals in the Pentagon hall.……We should cut short hair, shave, and strictly abide by uniform standards.
According to data released by the Pentagon in 2023,Nearly 70 percent of active U.S. soldiers are overweight or obese, and obesity rates (based on BMI) have doubled over the past decade.。
What is Trump's intention in appearing?
U.S. President Trump initially seemed unaware of the rally, but he once said: "If they invite me, I will go." Just two days before the meeting, Trump decided to attend the gathering of senior US military generals.
The Washington Post on September 28 that Trump’s presence not only disrupted the original arrangements for the Hague, but also added new security pressures to this large, almost unprecedented military rally.
If Hertz presided over the meeting to announce the reform of the new rules, then for Trump,This meeting is like a "loyalty test".
US President Trump:I have never entered such a quiet room.If you want to applaud, applaud, do what you want to do.If you don’t like what I say, you can choose to leave, but your title and future ends here.
The British "Economist" magazine believes that in Trump's view,“Loyalty” is especially important now, because he is about to start an “internal war.”
US President Trump:We should take some dangerous cities as training sites for the army, the National Guard... San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, these places are very unsafe, and we will clean up one by one.
According to the US "Capitol Hill" report, on the day of the meeting, Thomas Bussier, commander of the US Air Force's Global Strike Command, announced his retirement through his personal Facebook account, citing "personal and family reasons." Two days later, on October 2, Brian Fenton, commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, also announced his resignation.
The message Trump sent to the generals was simple: either be prepared to face an internal war in an army of MAGA (Make America Great Again), or get up.
Where is the strategic turning point?
According to the Wall Street Journal, this mysterious "summit" is "a turning point for the US military."
The day before this mysterious military conference, the Pentagon has distributed the draft National Defense Strategy (NDS) and Global Deployment Review (GPR) to the U.S. military headquarters in Washington and joint commandos around the world, according to the Washington Post.Some analysts believe that the distribution of the draft marks the Trump administration’s shift of defence policy focus to domestic defence and the Western Hemisphere.
On October 4, local time, pritzker, the governor of *, Illinois, posted on social media, "This morning, the Trump administration's' Department of War 'gave me an ultimatum: gather your troops, or we will do it." White House spokeswoman abigail jackson confirmed that day that Trump decided to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, Illinois.
As Trump "shifts his military focus inward," several American cities are implementing the "Washington, D.C. model." That is to say: the joint operations of federal law enforcement agencies and local police departments are normalized, the National Guard obeys the president's dispatch, and in the name of fighting crime, military power is federalized.
Today, after this rally,"anxious generals" have also become a hot topic in American society. On the one hand, driven by artificial intelligence, drones, etc., a new military science and technology revolution is coming; on the other hand, the "retrogression" caused by partisan strife in the United States is also intensifying. When external intervention replaces professional judgment, no matter how powerful the army is, it will gradually lose its combat effectiveness through self-consumption.
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Martin Martin said, in the context of the extreme scattering of American society,When the military conference discussed replacing the so-called "global leadership" with "domestic security", the decline of American hegemony was irreversible.
Source Central News