As The War In Iran Ramps Up, Pete Hegseth Orders ‘woke Review’ Of Military Colleges Nationwide

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a review of U.S. subject colleges to find whether they are “too woke,” arsenic nan warfare successful Iran continues to escalate.

“It's my occupation to make judge those who are rising to nan highest of ranks are arsenic prepared arsenic humanly possible,” Hegseth said successful a video posted to societal media Thursday night.

“And if we're pulling officers retired of civilian universities because they're excessively woke, past we amended make judge our ain universities are prepared to do nan task properly, and we're going to do that.”

Hegseth’s announcement came soon earlier he became visibly angered astatine a property convention Friday morning, during which he urged a "patriotic press” to rewrite headlines astir nan administration’s deadly and costly war.

The projected assemblage reappraisal will beryllium conducted by a typical task unit that will measure elder work colleges, including institutions specified arsenic nan Army War College, National Defense University and Marine Corps University, to guarantee that “the attraction is wherever it belongs,” Hegseth said.

It will person 90 days to nutrient a study connected whether nan schools are "actually effective and… focused connected halfway nationalist information issues.”

War colleges connection an precocious subject acquisition to elder officers and Pentagon civilians, pinch a attraction connected subjects of strategy, associated operations, and wide nationalist information policies. Hegseth said nan reappraisal would activity to destruct each parts of nan program that were not aligned pinch specified topics.

“We want subject leaders who are captious thinkers that person studied nan principles connected which our founding fathers established this republic, and they're knowledgeable and prepared to triumph wars aft nan wokeness and weakness of Joe Biden's administration,” Hegseth said successful his video.

“Our warfare fighters merit training pinch integrity wherever nan attraction is connected nan warrior ethos, connected deterrence and connected strength.”

Elsewhere during his Friday property briefing, Hegseth compared Iran’s leaders to “rats” successful hiding, boasting: “The U.S. is decimating nan extremist Iranian regime’s subject successful a measurement nan world has ne'er seen before.

“We said it would not beryllium a adjacent fight, and it has not been.”

To date, much than 15,000 Iranian targets person been hit, obliterating nan nation's aerial defenses, aerial force, and navy, while its rocket capabilities person plummeted by 90 percent, Hegseth said.

He warned that Friday, group to beryllium nan 14th time of subject operations, will beryllium nan astir aggravated time of U.S. strikes connected Iran to date.

"Iran's activity is successful nary amended shape. Desperate and hiding, they've gone underground, cowering. That's what rats do,” Hegseth said. The erstwhile Fox News big besides described Iran’s caller leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, arsenic nan “so-called not-so-supreme leader” who is “wounded and apt disfigured.”