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Defense Secretary Pete Hegses has a major voice within the Trump administration to assert masculinity.
Hegusteth was chosen by Donald Trump and was tough talk as a Fox News critic, and was chosen to lead the entire US military. I’m using it His new position praises the virtue of “fighter jets” against soft power as a US military approach.
This principle may have been best demonstrated during Hegseth Throwed x I nearly killed a musician in an episode of “Fox & Friends.”
Hegseth recently attacked the efforts of military leaders to diversify the ranks I’m saying The concept of “diversity is our strength” means “a single stupid phrase in military history.”
He returned to this theme during his recent trip to the NATO summit in Brussels, I’ll say it “We can talk about everything we want about value. Values are important. But we can’t photograph values.”
Trump has also embraced this “tough guy” spirit for a long time in his recently released public sphere Shine Official Portrait – Compared to the traditional portrait of the former president Barack Obama, Joe Bidenand more George W. Bush– to his repeated argument that Americans need to be “tough.”
Trump even ridden the weaknesses of the whole country with his capable title Books from 2015“The Criminal America: How to Make America Great Again”
During the campaign of former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, Obama enjoyed Trump and other Republicans for embracing “fake macho things.”
But this has become a problem among pre-Trump Republicans.
Bush Notorious Dress Up In a flight suit, he landed an aircraft carrier intermittently and accidentally in the Iraq War between his father George H.W. Bush. I insisted The first Gulf War victory meant that the US “kicked Vietnam Syndrome.”
But that’s not the way modern superpowers win wars. Rather, it is the Intelligence Report, the Union Building, and the strategic plan to end.
In World War II, allies did not simply cast military power on the power of the axis with pure tests of “manly” strength. In fact, it was the axis that had more raw firepower until the allies came up with a consistent attack plan in response to German and Japanese attacks.
One of the most important breakthroughs in that conflict came not from the “fighter planes” that Heggs is ongoing, but by a team of dedicated codebreakers at Bletchley Park, England.
Mathematician Alan Turing Leading the team This cracked the German “mystery” code, which then allowed ground forces to engage in strategic ways, leading to the liberation of Europe and victory in war. Turing was gay and was later persecuted by the British government for sexual orientation. attack About LGBTQ+ military members updated by the Trump administration.
Modern military experts, not Fox News experts, are studying the benefits of military diversity, and unlike Hegseth, they know that it is important.
Professor Jason Ryal of Dartmouth University analyzed the problems he wrote. Articles for 2020 For the Washington Post.
“My research shows that comprehensive army fights harder, with lower rates of escape and exile, and shows more creative problem-solving on complex battlefields than those drawn from marginalized or oppressed groups. “I’m doing that,” he writes. “The battlefield victory over the last 200 years has usually gone to the most comprehensive army, not the largest or best army. In other words, inclusion is well suited to military effectiveness.”
And despite Hegses and Trump’s rhetoric, some of the most important US military victory and security advances of recent years have been under the leaders that rights attacked because of inadequate masculinity .
Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 9/11 attack, was not caught because Bush wore his flight suit. Rather, he was later arrested and killed. Obama’s Order 2011.
Many believed that Ukraine would soon fold when Russia invaded, but Biden I was standing behind Ukraine and the President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russia were unable to win, but Trump is now away from that stance.
Conservatives like to talk harshly, especially when reinforcing the image of white men who are more straightforward than women and ethnic minorities. However, modern power is often not supported by strategic planning, diplomacy, and soft power. It has been used by the US and other countries to avoid other disasters like World Wars, linked to the notion that international conflict is the realm of “fighter planes.”
But people like Hegseth and Trump are trapped in a worldview where only those who look like them are legal and everyone else has to fall on the roadside. It has historically been a path that leads to a pointless quagmire that claims the lives of millions of innocent people.
History shows that this time it remains the same.
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