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An Assembly of Generals
By Karen Kwiatkowski

It’s rare in peacetime, a meeting of all your flag officers in one place – and even more rare when a country is at war. The first question we must ask our generals and admirals, and our brand spanking new Secretary of War, is “Are we at war?”

This question – frankly pertinent and simultaneously impertinent – would stymie our American generals and those who lead them into harm’s way, and more commonly, down dead end streets, over the cliffs of insanity, and into fire swamps. Like former President Joe Biden, they Simply. Don’t. Know.

Obviously, this one question needs to be answered, and constitutionally explained by the Secretary of “War.” It’s the least we can ask of the young man.

Then, I would imagine that, given Secretary Hegseth is the MAGA man in the Pentagon, he will give the following short speech.

Thank you all for coming. I hope you packed your sh!%.

Putting America First means means change for the Pentagon. Some of you may have noticed that you haven’t won a war in 80 years. And yet, except for the ever-expanding trillions that pad your budgets and enrich you in retirement, not much has gotten better in the warfighting arena in those 80 years. Instead of an industrial capacity that allowed ramped-up production and innovation like the last time Congress declared war, we now have a far less industrial economy, and a changed demography. Fewer people are engaged in the kind of work that makes the kind of war you think you are conducting possible. The US economy today produces 43% of the globe’s weapons – and yet the nation does not profit! US-made weapons today are, as a rule, temperamental, expensive, inelegant, designed by committees and dreamed up by politicians in and out of uniform. What you call war is just another business, and you are pretty rotten businessmen. ......