A “Green Light” for War Crimes? What Trump & Hegseth’s Lecture to Generals Really Means

A “Green Light” for War Crimes? What Trump & Hegseth’s Lecture to Generals Really Means

At an unprecedented gathering of hundreds of top generals and admirals from U.S. military installations around the world, President Trump delivered a rambling speech Tuesday alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. They laid out their vision of a “warrior” culture in the U.S. military and claimed the United States is facing an “invasion from within.” Eugene Fidell, a military scholar at Yale Law School, says the meeting was a means of “exacting

Hegseth’s Hatred of Americans Makes Him Unfit for Office but a Perfect Fit for Trump

The speech delivered by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth yesterday at an extraordinary meeting of generals and admirals at Marine Corps Base Quantico had this main purpose: Provide Hegseth a televised platform to rant against what he assails as “woke” military standards. But it once again raised serious questions about Hegseth’s fitness for the job. These questions—which included a sexual assault allegation from 2017 and a devastating email fro…