I see a lot of issues with this, but wanted to get your take.

Yeah, I think the first question I would ask would be, what is the actual goal of this? What is the strategic objective of changing this whole process to produce what, right? What kind of leader and what kind of officer at that rank? And I ask because You know, I don't think we need to produce a whole bunch of general officers who are tactically brilliant at the 07 level.

Like that's not what our general officers are for, right? We want general officers who are strategically brilliant, who can see and pull in all of the different things they need to do at that level and think critically about the information they're receiving so that they can make strategic decisions that help the military move towards its strategic objectives.

You know, I think if you look back on the conflicts that you and I both participated in over the last 25 years, there's been a lot of tactical brilliance, right? Like a lot of tactical proficiency, operational excellence, that strategic brilliance maybe wasn't there.

And I don't know, I don't see anything clearly connecting this new evaluation to developing those kinds of leaders, right? And I...

a funny story, maybe funny, maybe sad, maybe I'm gonna embarrass myself.

But when I went through my doctoral program, um, I got to my comprehensive exams and I was a new Lieutenant Colonel Reservist.

Hegseth has a, you know, major issue with this but jeanette unlike most people yelling about this on television or online you actually did this work okay and so forget the slogans for a minute forget the all the you know dei is this or dei is bad or or it's whatever what what were you actually doing when you were working on this