A "Green Light" for War Crimes? What Trump & Hegseth's Lecture to Generals Really Means

At an unprecedented gathering of hundreds of top generals and admirals from U.S. military installations around the world, President Trump delivered a rambling speech Tuesday alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. They laid out their vision of a warrior" culture in the U.S. military and claimed the United States is facing an invasion from within." Eugene Fidell, a military scholar at Yale Law School, says the meeting was a means of exacting loyalty, special loyalty, from the most senior officers and enlisted personnel" and that by promoting a solely white male" image of the U.S. armed forces, the administration has made clear it wants to turn back the hands of the social clock."