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Hegseth Announces New Autonomous Weapons Command While Repeating Attacks on "Woke" Culture During Speech to Troops
- On Wednesday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the new Autonomous Warfare Command at the military base in Quantico, Virginia, focusing on AI, robotics, and autonomous weapons for future military operations.
- Hegseth doubled the reduction target for general and flag officer positions to 20% while aiming to "rip out the politics" of the Pentagon and remove "woke" policy from military culture.
- Project Agincourt will overhaul drone acquisition, while SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and Palmer Luckey of Anduril will lead the Project Meridian warfare study group.
- Coinciding with Wednesday's announcement, U.S. troops completed their withdrawal from Iraq, ending the 2014 campaign against ISIS that swept across Iraq and Syria.
- Hegseth blasted media coverage of military operations as "treason" while conceding a "free press" is "important," emphasizing the department's "only mission" is "warfighting, preparing for war and preparing to win.
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