Pete Hegseth’s obsession with culture wars are destroying the military, sources say

The scandal-ridden Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has had a busy couple of years.

From Signal Gate, to hiring his wife as his de facto producer, to purging much of the Pentagon’s top officers, there are plenty of examples of Hegseth being in the crossfire of, well, everyone.

And while there has not been a major story involving Secretary Hegseth since Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned a couple of weeks ago, people are now speaking out about why there is so much turmoil at the Pentagon.

It is because of Pete Hegseth’s obsession with culture wars.

A culture war fixation

When Dan Driscoll publicly resigned, a lot of sources began to leak information to various news outlets.

Some sources told CNN that Pete Hegseth is directly hindering the Army’s ability to adapt to modern combat with the evolution of drones and AI and instead focusing on the “American warfighter” image he wants to instill all over the military.

“It’s critical that you have key leaders that understand technology and have the temperament to deal with industry and turn that into the formation,” a former Army official told CNN.

A defense official stationed in Europe elaborated further on the disconnect between modernizing the military and focusing on culture war issues. “It’s conflicting because yeah he put out a memo saying this is important, but … he’s talking about muscles, dudes in dresses, testosterone,” the official said. “We don’t see a change at that level.”

Even Republicans are fed up with Hegseth

Pete Hegseth’s fixation on his deep public disagreement with some of the more progressive core social beliefs, values, and moral norms in American society has even made his fellow Republicans call for his job.

One of them, Thom Tillis, a United States Senator from North Carolina, called for Pete Hegseth to resign on social media after Dan Driscoll was ousted.

“I have never witnessed more inept management of the brave men and women who serve our country,” Tillis wrote. “He is intimidated by competence and retreats to ginning up culture wars instead of soberly attending to the vital work of our national defense and the health and well-being of our fighting force. I urge the President to find a new leader at the Pentagon who will retain and empower our military talent rather than diminish it.”

Will the President act?

This might fall on deaf ears, as Tillis has been a moderate critic of Trump in the past and is retiring at the end of the year.

And it does not seem like Hegseth’s culture war obsession will end anytime soon.

Hegseth also went after the Biden administration for “promoting priorities like gender issues, women, peace and security, or climate change and diversity — dudes in dresses.”

Then he went to Iowa to campaign for a House Representative (and to float a trial balloon for a possible presidential bid in 2028) where he once again promoted his “warrior ethos.”

“At the Department of War, we do training not trannies,” Hegseth proudly proclaimed.

This article is made and published by Daniel Wolfram, who may have used AI in the preparation