Source: The Intercept
by Nick Turse
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he has a singular mission. ‘Your job [as secretary] is to make sure that it’s lethality, lethality, lethality. Everything else is gone. Everything else that distracts from that shouldn’t be happening,’ he said during his confirmation process. Since taking the helm at the Pentagon, Hegseth has doubled down. ‘We do warfighting here at the Department of Defense,’ he said at a Pentagon town hall, demanding a ‘laser focus on readiness, lethality, and warfighting.’ … What golf has to do with lethality is a question that the Defense Department failed to answer. Nor would the Pentagon weigh in on the hundreds of millions of dollars wrapped up in, or swallowed up by, military golf courses over decades.” (03/10/25)
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/10/pentagon-spending-golf-courses-trump-budget-cuts-elon-musk-doge/