America’s New National Defense Strategy | The Rob Maness Show EP 589

The usual suspects like the Washington Post continue to publish anonymously sourced articles about everything Trump administration but they especially like to hit the Department of War, with its large budget and vast bureaucracy, Secretary Pete Hegseth has generated a lot of concerns since taking office and implementing the President’s new America First National Defense Strategy. These last few days being no different. The Post is reporting “Military leaders have raised serious concerns about the Trump administration’s forthcoming defense strategy, exposing a divide between the Pentagon’s political and uniformed leadership as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons top brass to a highly unusual summit in Virginia on Tuesday, according to eight current and former officials. The critiques from multiple top officers, including Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, come as Hegseth reorders U.S. military priorities — centering the Pentagon on perceived threats to the homeland, narrowing U.S. competition with China, and downplaying America’s role in Europe and Africa.” My guest today is Dan Caldwell, and he knows more than most how all this works. Dan is a US Marine Corps Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, the former Executive Director of Concerned Veterans for America, a former U.S. House staffer, and former Senior Advisor to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

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