Emergency Episode: Hegseth’s Quantico Manifesto

Hosts argue Hegseth's second Quantico speech was more deliberately subversive of civil-military order than his first, deepening institutional damage.

• Second annual Quantico speech graded worse: Eliot Cohen calls this year's address "much worse" and "deliberately subversive" compared to last year's "juvenile" performance, citing Hegseth's two years of consolidated confidence and loyalists in place.
• Attacks on generals seen as dangerous: Hegseth mocked named officers (Chris Donahue, Randy George, C.Q. Brown) as "woke" or "weak," which Cohen says undermines the General Officer Corps' authority and civilian-military order.

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