Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Strategic Readiness. Retired CIA Paramilitary Operations Officer. Tertia Optio!
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Today I submitted my formal resignation as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategic Readiness. When I took on this task for @POTUS, @SecWar, & @USW_PR_HONTata, I promised a year; another year away from my wife whom I miss dearly. The resignation takes effect in 2 weeks.
Maybe we should consider canceling the NORAD agreement?
Ronald Moeller retweeted
Nah man. I’m not gonna let this go unchecked. As a GWOT veteran I can’t.
I listened to Massie drone through his articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth and I recognized the sickness immediately.
We fought under this ridiculous worldview during GWOT, and it cost us dearly.
Massie is merely an acolyte of the bloodless bureaucratic religion that puts the lawyer in the center of the kill chain, treats every American use of force like a moral emergency, and somehow always finds more sympathy for the enemy being hunted than for the American sent to hunt him.
His whole speech I began wondering who he actually was speaking for, and that’s not good.
GWOT vets know EXACTLY where that road leads. Another approval. Another review. Another JAG opinion. Another commander afraid to make a decision because one bad headline will destroy his career faster than losing the fight ever could.
We were lectured for years about “courageous restraint.” We were told that killing one enemy might create ten more. We were taught to fear our own lethality while the enemy studied our hesitation.
And then we spent twenty years bleeding into the fucking sand.
So spare me the sermon about how dangerous it is to remove lawyers who think their job is to become a veto point over command. Spare me the sudden reverence for process from people who watched Afghanistan collapse, watched thirteen Americans die at Abbey Gate, watched the Taliban retake Kabul, and somehow found no constitutional apocalypse worthy of impeachment then.
Now the outrage is that the machine is actually being used. That commanders are expected to command. And that enemies are being treated like…. actual enemies for once.
That civilian leadership is telling the bureaucracy to get the hell out of the way of lawful military action.
From where I sit, the betrayal isn’t that Washington finally found some aggression for a chang. The realest betrayal is that men like Massie still think the lesson of the GWOT was that we needed more hesitation.
No. WE NEEDED MORE VICTORY.
And I’m done pretending those are the same thing. We’re all done with it. Massie is dead wrong here, he knows it, you know it, and I know it.
Sincerely,
-A seriously disgruntled GWOT vet who knows Hegseth is the cure to what ails our military here.
Breaking News: Congressman Thomas Massie is reading Articles of Impeachment against @SecWar Pete Hegseth on the House floor now.
Watch here: youtube.com/live/3EmwC0QQ8f8…
Ronald Moeller retweeted
Honoring the United States Marine Corps (@USMC) for 251 years of unwavering devotion to duty, safeguarding American sovereignty and relentlessly defending the nation. Today, we salute the extraordinary heritage of our Marines who stand ready at every frontier to protect our national security. Semper Fidelis!
You're so full of shit I'm amazed the state of Rhode Island doesn't declare you an environmental disaster!
An unserious speech from an unserious person, but with a fair amount of civil-military damage in the mix. Hegseth's nickname around the Pentagon is "Dumb McNamara," and he went the distance to earn that one today at the Naval War College.
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
Ronald Moeller retweeted
This reform exactly is what the SGEs worked on.
@KurtSchlichter , @CynicalPublius , @RobManess .
And they got ripped apart in the public square and got called "paid influencers" and "traitors" for it.
Four bot networks weren't unleashed because they were being paid to post. They were doing serious work. Work which required outsider experts.
@PeteHegseth does not mess around.
.@SECWAR “At my direction, I am announcing 33 new directives—a COMPLETE OVERHAUL to reform our Department of War Senior Service Colleges.
To forge leaders of unmatched competence, sound moral judgment, and resolute warrior ethos.
That memo and those 33 directives will be arriving in your inbox today.”
Read and heed. We're finally going to raise a generation of war fighters and war winners!!
I was honored to watch the speech today. I look forward to meeting with the Naval War College President tomorrow morning. Couple of other direct quotes from SecWar today:
"The primary task of our Senior Service Colleges cannot be the passive transmission of credentials. It cannot be the curation of an insulated salon for intellectual leisure. It must be teaching victory."
"Strategy divorced from operational reality is nothing more than academic daydreaming. Wars are not won at the strategic level in the abstract; strategy succeeds or fails at the point where operational art and tactical lethality meet the adversary."
"At my direction - effective immediately - there will be no more eighty-page theoretical written thesis as the primary capstone of war college achievement. In its place, we are establishing competitive, SI-assisted wargaming and high-stress decision forcing scenarios as the centerpiece of senior officer evaluation."
"We will create a permanent, inter-college wargaming architecture across all senior service colleges. No longer will jointness be reduced to an Army Colonel and a Navy Captain sharing coffee in the same seminar room. True jointness is forged under competitive operational friction. Our service colleges will execute interconnected capstone wargames, linking live, virtual, and constructive forces across domains, testing students against complex, unscripted peer adversary maneuvers. Furthermore, these wargames will feed directly into the newly established Joint Warfighter Exercises."
"The Senior Service Colleges will serve as the modern proving ground. Through intensive wargaming, combined with rigorous, adversarial oral defense boards that eliminate the ability to hide behind academic ghostwriters or generative SI, we will stress-test every prospective general and flag officer. Promotion to senior rank will not be an administrative reward for longevity; it will be earned by demonstrating the intellectual agility, lethal operational competence, and moral resolve required to win in combat."
Ronald Moeller retweeted
.@SECWAR "When a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff engages in actions during a presidential transition that raise profound Constitutional questions regarding civilian control of the military, that is not a topic to be swept under the rug.
Just because some of you know Mark Milley doesn’t mean we should not study his failures.
It is arguably the most significant civil-military crisis since President Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur in 1951.
Our war colleges should study it, debate it, and reinforce the foundational Constitutional principle that the military is strictly subordinate to elected civilian authority."
Ronald Moeller retweeted
.@SECWAR “The fundamental duty of the Armed Forces of the United States of America is to assure America’s victory in war.
VICTORY—our ultimate screening criteria.
It is the unsparing standard against which every regulation, every doctrine, every budget dollar, and every academic syllabus should be judged.”
Ronald Moeller retweeted
.@SECWAR “A true mission statement for a war college should be blunt: To educate senior military officers so that they can defeat America’s adversaries.”
I've been saying this for years!!
.@SECWAR “For years, our war college mission statements have been choked with gauzy academic platitudes.
We speak endlessly of producing ‘critical thinkers,’ ‘strategic-enterprise leaders,’ and officers with an ‘appreciation of the complex global security environment.’
Just look at the mission statements from across our colleges: The word ‘win’ is entirely absent. The word ‘defeat’ does not appear. The word ‘victory’ appears exactly once, buried inside strained institutional jargon.”
Ronald Moeller retweeted
.@SECWAR “The philosophical doctrines of the Frankfurt School – critical theory and the corrosive apparatus of ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ – are fundamentally INCOMPATIBLE with military service and antithetical to the Constitution of the United States.”
Ronald Moeller retweeted
.@SECWAR “Consequently, the primary task of our Senior Service Colleges cannot be the passive transmission of credentials. It cannot be the curation of an insulated salon for intellectual leisure.
It must be—teaching victory.
The deliberate, uncompromising task of forging senior military leaders who are intellectually, ethically, and operationally prepared to decisively deter but necessarily defeat our enemies in unforgiving combat.”
Ronald Moeller retweeted
Listen to everything @StephenM says here about President @realDonaldTrump.
Because it’s true.
@WhiteHouse
