Tag: Department of Defense
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Summary and Explanation of the DoD Inspector General Report (DODIG-2026-021)
Released on December 2, 2025, the DoD Inspector General’s evaluation (Report No. DODIG-2026-021) scrutinizes Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s reported reliance on the Signal app for official business, including sensitive discussions around U.S. airstrikes on Houthi forces in Yemen. Prompted by a March 26, 2025, Senate Armed Services Committee request following exposés in The Atlantic,…
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Pentagon Transformation: Hegseth Announces “Department of War” Overhaul at National War College
In a speech echoing Donald Rumsfeld’s words from September 10, 2001, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared war on the Pentagon’s own bureaucracy – canceling the 300-day requirements process, collapsing 3-8 year acquisition timelines to under one year, and warning defense contractors to embrace “wartime speed” or be “gone.” The transformation renames the Department of Defense…
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State of Oregon v. Trump
The State of Oregon and City of Portland are suing President Trump, the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security, and their departments to block the federalization and deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard members to Portland. The complaint alleges this action, taken on September 28, 2025, is unlawful political retaliation disguised as a response to…