"The DDS had struggled in recent years to stay at full strength, buffeted by what employees said was political infighting, hiring freezes, travel restrictions and an increasing number of bureaucratic layers. A watchdog audit released in May 2024 also found that former DDS directors had granted unauthorized waivers for certain tech tools. But every employee interviewed said they wouldn’t have left if it wasn’t for DOGE.

One former senior Pentagon official, who asked not to be named because of possible retaliation, described DOGE’s wider incursion into the Defense Department as damaging and unproductive

“They’re not really using AI, they’re not really driving efficiency. What they’re doing is smashing everything,” the former official said.

At the DDS, “The best way to put it, I think, is either we die quickly or we die slowly,” Hay said."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/pentagons-digital-resignations-00290930

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Proud of military families. These kids have more guts than big law firms and universities.

"Students held signs that read "Hands Off Our Library", "Academic Freedom = American Freedom" and "Unity In Diversity," according to photos shared on the Instagram page.

The students were protesting President Donald Trump's executive orders that have resulted in Department of Defense Education Activity schools removing books from their libraries and altering curricula related to minorities, women and LGBTQ+ people." #military #DOD https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/10/were-going-fight-what-we-believe-military-kids-protest-diversity-crackdown-base-schools-worldwide.html

"Vice Adm Shoshana Chatfield has been fired. She was the first woman to lead the US Naval War College in Newport, RI. Her tenure made her a target of conservative advocacy, claiming she was overly concerned with DEI.

Chatfield served as America’s rep to the NATO MIL CMTE, the alliance’s group of top uniformed officials. The body advises NATO’s two most senior military leaders & helps guide LT strategy.

A shameful #firing.

#Misogyny #Fascism #DOD #DEI #USPol https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2025/04/07/top-us-admiral-at-nato-removed-amid-trumps-growing-military-firings/

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Trump's firing of U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield is being referred to as an "expanding national security purge" but let's be honest. This isn't about national security any more than firing Gen CQ Brown & Adm Lisa Franchetti was. This is about fucking over women and POC who are the best of the best. This is an expanding attack on women and POC. It's not "national security" anything...except weakening it. As always, Putin is thrilled. #military #DOD

Head of #NationalSecurity Agency & #Cyber Command Is Ousted

No reason was given for the removal of Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, but the #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorist #LauraLoomer had called for his ouster in a meeting with #Trump, an official said.

#NSA #USCyberCom #DOD #military #USmilitary #MilitaryPreparedness #USpol #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/politics/nsa-cyber-command-chief-fired.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=5EEED3CC-7459-4B93-9861-7531F383E2EB

"With remarkable transparency, the Pentagon has offered a public inventory of the $66.5 billion array of weaponry supplied to Ukraine — including, at last count, more than a half-billion rounds of small-arms ammunition and grenades, 10,000 Javelin antiarmor weapons, 3,000 Stinger antiaircraft systems, 272 howitzers, 76 tanks, 40 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, 20 Mi-17 helicopters and three Patriot air defense batteries.

But a New York Times investigation reveals that America was woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood. At critical moments, the partnership was the backbone of Ukrainian military operations that, by U.S. counts, have killed or wounded more than 700,000 Russian soldiers. (Ukraine has put its casualty toll at 435,000.) Side by side in Wiesbaden’s mission command center, American and Ukrainian officers planned Kyiv’s counteroffensives. A vast American intelligence-collection effort both guided big-picture battle strategy and funneled precise targeting information down to Ukrainian soldiers in the field.

One European intelligence chief recalled being taken aback to learn how deeply enmeshed his N.A.T.O. counterparts had become in Ukrainian operations. “They are part of the kill chain now,” he said.

The partnership’s guiding idea was that this close cooperation might allow the Ukrainians to accomplish the unlikeliest of feats — to deliver the invading Russians a crushing blow. And in strike after successful strike in the first chapters of the war — enabled by Ukrainian bravery and dexterity but also Russian incompetence — that underdog ambition increasingly seemed within reach."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html

As Trump's allies start turning on his DEF Sec, Jennifer Rubin explains how Pete Hegseth's tenure will get much worse—& why it'll become untenable for Trump & the GOP.

Trump’s top advisors discussed war plans in an insecure chat, a scandal that continues to shake the admin. This comes as a poll finds that 74% of Americans see the leak as a serious problem, incl 60% of Rs.

J Rubin on Sec Marco Rubio

#DOD #SignalGate #NationalSecurity #Rubio #Hegseth #USPol

https://newrepublic.com/article/193361/transcript-trump-text-fiasco-worsens-knives-come-hegseth

Hegseth’s younger brother is serving in a key role inside the Pentagon - because of course he is. The infiltration process continues unabated and will likely heat up as #Trump and #MAGA complete their takeover of the government. #DOD #Pentagon #military #coup #AmericanCoup https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2025/03/28/hegseths-younger-brother-is-serving-in-a-key-role-inside-the-pentagon/

#istanbul #pikatchu made it just in time to make an other #hegseth #meme before the bandwagon moves on.

btw my sympathies to the #turkiye demonstrators!

Frank Bruni - NY Times - “Who could have imagined it? That Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of all peacocks would commit an egregious error in judgment, display a complete lack of professionalism and be sloppy enough to divulge war plans in a group chat that included a prominent journalist? Sure, there were reports of Hegseth’s gross mismanagement of the veterans’ groups that he once led. There were accusations of public drunkenness and a violent temper.” #DOD #PeteHegseth #military #opsec

Hesgeth is the living embodiment of very mediocre white men failing upwards. #hesgeth #DoD #USPol