Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced onetime trillionaire Elon Musk, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and right-wing entrepreneur Palmer Luckey as the new heads of “Project Meridian”—a massive upcoming study on the “future of warfare.”
Hegseth made the announcement at his “State of the Force” address on Wednesday afternoon, describing the trio of Trump loyalists as “the best forecasters of future conflict.”
“There are obvious biases and risks to asking ourselves to both ask the questions and answer them. So today we are leveraging a unique source of American advantage—one our adversaries do not have: our innovators, our senior leaders, and our technologists. Big thinkers and doers who will forecast the creative solution to tomorrow’s conflicts,” Hegseth said. “And that’s why today … I’m announcing Project Meridian, an effort led by America’s best minds to study the future of warfare.”
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Newt Gingrich is still alive???
unfortunately
Haven’t seen him in nearly a decade. Bet he looks even more like shit.
I last heard his name on /b/. I haven’t been to /b/ since the 2000s.
TIL
He’s 83, hopefully not for long
onetime trillionaire Elon Musk
Look I know there are bigger problems we need to work on, but I still have to appreciate the little things
Honestly he was never a trillionaire, that “worth” was merely speculative and way over-valued. A very transparent PR gimmick.
WTF…
What the actual fuck even is this fever dream, honestly
bottom of the barrel humans known as MAGA decided to fuck the entire world over rather than work on themselves
But he just said no fatties, weirdos, or wimps.
He didn’t say no ketamine.
Yea but said ketamine addict IS a fatty, weirdo and a wimp.
They’re going to re-segregate the army probably.
They’re already trying to force out all the black service members by denying them promotions and shitty rules about shaving.
Damn. Sucks to join an imperialist institution
So they actually want a smaller military?
Or are they going to substitute it again by forcing another draft?
Anyway, the quality is sure to go down. To the rejoice of many occupied countries.
You’re trying to apply logic and thought to the actions of small minded, insecure bigots. With MAGA there’s no thought or consideration beyond the very first. In this case it’s “non-whites and women bad. buff white man good”
They don’t perceive any of the downstream effects of what their actions will do or how their opponents will react. Once you understand that MAGA are truly just THAT fucking stupid it starts to make more sense.
We live in a fucking cartoon.
And the clown show downfall of America continues unabated.
I’d try to shame conservatives for what they’ve done, but those cucks probably think a, checks notes, Nazi and, checks notes, 83 year old retired piece of shit are good choices to help run, checks notes, the most powerful (and dangerous) military on the face of the planet.
Don’t forget Palmer Lucky, founder of Oculus and real life version of The Incredible’s villain, Syndrome.
Putting AMERICA First means having an ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT run Our Military!
-LITERALLY Republicans!
He just picked the wrong one. There’s probably quite a few illegal Mexicans who’d do a better job than Hegseth.
And Israel
Best Forecasters of Future Conflict.
They know future conflict isn’t the war that a foreign nation will come at the military with. The future of warfare is how they will fight the revolutionaries that will inevitably rise against tyranny.
Musk has the ability to deploy surveillance technology anywhere. The “study” is “how do they continue to keep squeezing the iron fist?”
Edit: and by anywhere, I mean ANYWHERE. Motherfucker owns a space agency. Tesla cars rely on video processing of always network connected cameras for their driving assist mechanisms. Starlink puts network connectivity anywhere it currently isn’t.
And GUESS who is part of the PayPal mafia? Palantir. But also Yelp and LinkedIn. Those are much less important than Palantir, but Yelp can at least target businesses that don’t play along, and LinkedIn can harm people seeking employment.
The dystopia we are in is worse than people can truly grasp.
I hope that lead means infantry vanguard.
He could lead the space force, be the first human to land on the sun
We’re fucking doomed.
If you’re American, consider that the rest of the world has been reading comments like this daily for years.
Is that the big plan? Every day, new BS, “we’re cooked chat”. Repeat.
Begging Americans to decide now what is too far and put it on the wall or something. As of right now, it sounds like frogs slowly being boiled in the pot.
I think the destruction of military power for all the major nation states is the plan of the wealthy.
IMO They are preparing for a world of corporations and billionaires with their own militas. So destroying the competition before they announce the new game has begun.
Thats why all the bluster and fury stops at a certain level before anything changes the plan.
Well, we might be okay.
I don’t think any of those dorks have seen COLOSSUS: The Forbin Project yet.
Two men with no military experience who haven’t so much as been in a fistfight. Makes sense.
Hegseth: “no weirdos”
Not even consistent with his own bullshit.
