Human Events with Jack Posobiec, December 12th, 2025

Summary

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Human Events with Jack Posobiec

Episode Date: December 12, 2025
Podcast: Real America’s Voice
Host: Jack Posobiec

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Episode Overview

This special edition of Human Events with Jack Posobiec is the "Department of War Special," recorded on-site at the Pentagon. The episode focuses on the dramatic shifts in U.S. military policy and culture under the second Trump administration, with exclusive interviews from key Department of War officials. Central themes include the military's return to its traditional fighting mission, surging recruitment and retention rates, direct action against cartels, the eradication of progressive social policies in the armed forces, and a renewed commitment to American "peace through strength."

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Surging Military Recruitment and Shifts in Mission

[01:09–03:05, 02:08, 38:32]

• Jack Posobiec opens by declaring a "historic surge" in recruitment and retention after years of declining numbers.
  • “Today we barely have enough throughput in basic training to deal with the amount of Americans that want to stand up and serve. It is historic.” (Posobiec 02:08)
• The core mission of the military, according to Posobiec, has returned to defending the homeland, not engaging in social engineering or foreign interventions.
  • Strong criticism of past focus on "DEI, transgenderism, experimental vaccines,” with the assertion that the military is not a humanitarian organization but an organization to "hurt people and break stuff."
  • “The point of the military is basic defense of the homeland...to perform military operations where, yes, bad guys get hurt and their stuff gets broken.” (Posobiec 05:00)
• Notable spike in Special Forces selection and overall morale, attributed to the revived "warrior ethos" and clear mission focus.

2. Elimination of DEI/CRT and Return to Standards

[24:10–26:56, 31:50–36:55]

• Interview with Under Secretary of War for Personnel and Readiness, General Tata.
  • Outlines the removal of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) from military training, service academies, and child education.
  • “Let’s focus on those things that unify us instead of those things that divide us... Everyone from tooth to tail, focused on the same thing – being a physically fit, mentally fit war fighter.” (Tata 25:31)
  • Re-emphasis on unity of purpose, physical and mental readiness, and supporting military families.
  • Acknowledgement of the administrative burden placed on units in past years due to "non-war fighting tasks."
  • “We’ve ripped all that out and refocused... We want the soldiers to raise the level of their physical fitness. All the service members to be experts in whatever their field is, their assigned weapon.” (Eric Garrison 32:22, 33:36)

3. Homeland Defense & Border Operations

Guest: Patrick Weaver, Senior Advisor to Secretary of War for Homeland Defense
[10:02–19:54]

• Details the change in policy allowing the military to take an "equal player" role in border security after Trump’s executive order.
• Cartels have been designated foreign terrorist organizations, unlocking expanded military authorities.
  • “When the President designated these as foreign terrorist organizations, he unleashed a whole new level of authorities for us to stop the drug flow into the United States.” (Weaver 11:29)
• Recent operations discussed include federalized deployments of National Guard and joint patrols with law enforcement in U.S. cities, particularly post-critical incidents (e.g., shooting outside the White House).
• Enhanced force protection, authorization for soldiers to carry sidearms in D.C., and integration of military with law enforcement in crime-ridden cities.

4. Direct Military Action Against Drug Cartels

[17:45–18:50, 41:53–50:00]

• U.S. drone strikes against cartel “drug boats” in the Caribbean receive broad public support (Harvard Harris poll: nearly 60% approval).
  • Posobiec frames these actions as overdue and essential for American security.
• Military has adapted to cartel tactics (e.g., use of weaponized drones by cartels), upgrading counter-UAS systems.
• Posobiec frames the war on drugs as a "war" that hasn't been conducted with proper wartime mindset:
  • “In a war, you don’t sit around and fight it like a policing operation. You kill people. That’s the difference.” (Posobiec 47:40)
  • Strong, uncompromising stance on using violence against drug traffickers: "There is an unlimited amount of violence that I would be willing to employ in the defense of my wife and in the defense of my children. And it’s as simple as that." (Posobiec 49:03)

5. Military Family, Legacy, and Recruitment Culture

[39:43–41:19]

• Eric Garrison emphasizes importance of military as a "family business" and expresses concern that, prior to this administration, legacy families were discouraging service.
  • “When we got to the point where these parents are saying, I don’t want my sons and daughters to do this, we were at a breaking point... If we would have went a few more years, we would have been past the point of no return.” (Garrison 40:44)
• New administration credited with making service attractive and respectable again.

6. Military as a Non-Political, Unifying Force

[34:58–36:30]

• Return to merit-based, non-political standards:
  • “The enemy doesn’t look at us as you’re a Republican, you’re a Democrat, you’re this ethnicity. All the enemy wants to do is kill Americans.” (Garrison 36:30)
• Standards for discipline, grooming, fitness are presented as essential for unit cohesion and readiness.

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Memorable Quotes & Timestamps

• “Today we barely have enough throughput in basic training to deal with the amount of Americans that want to stand up and serve. It is historic.”
  – Jack Posobiec [02:08]
• “The point of the military is basic defense of the homeland by hurting people and breaking stuff. That is what the point of the military is.”
  – Jack Posobiec [05:00]
• “Let’s focus on those things that unify us instead of those things that divide us.”
  – General Tata [25:31]
• “When the President designated these as foreign terrorist organizations, he unleashed a whole new level of authorities for us to stop the drug flow...”
  – Patrick Weaver [11:29]
• “In a war, you don’t sit around and fight it like a policing operation. You kill people. That’s the difference.”
  – Jack Posobiec [47:40]
• “The enemy doesn’t look at us as you’re a Republican, you’re a Democrat... All the enemy wants to do is kill Americans.”
  – Eric Garrison [36:30]
• “If we would have went a few more years, we would have been past the point of no return.”
  – Eric Garrison [40:44]
• “There is an unlimited amount of violence that I would be willing to employ in the defense of my wife and in the defense of my children. And it’s as simple as that.”
  – Jack Posobiec [49:03]

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Important Segments by Timestamp

• 01:09–03:05: Overview of record-breaking recruitment and return to warfighting focus.
• 05:00–06:39: Posobiec's personal reflection on military purpose versus social programs.
• 10:02–21:27: Exclusive interview with Patrick Weaver on border security, law enforcement support, joint operations, and policy changes.
• 24:10–29:30: Interview with General Tata on military family welfare, removal of CRT/DEI, and focus on operational readiness.
• 31:10–41:19: Interview with Eric Garrison on culture shifts, restoring standards, fighting focus, and the importance of military family legacy.
• 41:53–50:00: Posobiec’s monologue on public support for drone strikes on cartels, philosophy of violence in defense of the homeland, and critique of prior military/political approaches.

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Tone and Language

The tone is direct, combative, and unapologetically populist, aligning with "America First" and Trump-era themes. Posobiec and his guests speak in plain, sometimes blunt language, often rejecting politically correct or nuanced approaches in favor of militaristic clarity and traditional values. The episode is marked by a sense of pride in "real American strength," frustration with past "political" military leadership, and emotional appeals to patriotism, family, and unity.

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For Listeners Who Haven’t Tuned In

This episode offers a rare window into the self-styled "new era" of American defense, emphasizing restored standards, operational focus, and harsh measures against external threats. The hosts and guests present a vision of the military as a unifying, non-political institution, dedicated solely to direct national defense and the well-being of its personnel and their families. The shift in recruitment, family legacy, and national support for hardline policies—especially direct action against cartels—are presented as vindication of the new direction.

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*For further insight, listen to interview segments at:

• Patrick Weaver: [10:02–21:27]
• General Tata: [24:10–29:30]
• Eric Garrison: [31:10–41:19]
• Posobiec’s closing monologue: [41:53–50:00]*

Transcript

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November, 119% in February, 108% after the election, 105% with the Navy.

[Jack Posobiec]

With the Marines up 112% and 100%.

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They are through the roof.

[Jack Posobiec]

The U.S. air Force 100% of its goal. Same thing in February.

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I think the war fighters are happy.

[Jack Posobiec]

To have a warfighter up top. Those numbers are reflection of why we're here. When war fighting and lethality is brought back and it's serious that what we're doing here is serious about getting after soldiering and war fighting, American people want to come back in.

[Eric Garrison]

They want to sign up.

[Jack Posobiec]

These recruiting numbers don't surprise me. You're a part of a huge surge right now, a historic surge of Americans that are stepping up to serve this country. As President Trump points out, record breaking numbers of Americans are enlisting to serve. A year ago we couldn't get folks to serve. Today we barely have enough throughput and basic training to deal with the amount of Americans that want to stand up and serve. It is historic. The level of recruitment that we're getting and those that are in in the ranks already, retention is at record breaking levels. We don't care what you look like. It doesn't matter if your dad left.

[Eric Garrison]

Or if you knew who your father was.

[Jack Posobiec]

Getting annihilated. We have been honed into a machine.

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[Jack Posobiec]

If you know, good for you that.

[Eric Garrison]

Three sites have been struck by US Bombers.

[Jack Posobiec]

We will not back down. We've seen war.

[Eric Garrison]

We don't want war.

[Jack Posobiec]

But if you want war with the United States of America, there's one thing I can promise you, so help me God, someone else will raise your sons and daughters. What you're watching in real time is peace through strength and America first. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events daily. Today is December 12, 2025 Anno Domini, folks. Today we've got a special treat for all of you. Today is the Human Events Department of War special because what we're doing today is if you remember, we went to the Department of War earlier in the week. We conducted a series of interviews with department officials who were there. And in those interviews, we talked about the new mission of the military. And I should actually say it's the old mission of the military. Funny enough, it's the mission of the military that I joined when I joined the United States Navy. The mission of defending the United States of America, its Constitution and its people. That is the point of the US Military, not social programs, is not dei, it is not transgenderism. It is none of this stuff. It is basic defense of the homeland. Are you defending your home, patriot? Are you actually able to be there and be someone who's part of an organization whose job it is, yes, to defend the homeland by hurting people and breaking stuff. That is what the point of the military is. Military is not a humanitarian organization. The point of the hill, of the military is to perform military operations. And military operations are those sorts of operations where, yes, bad guys get hurt and their stuff gets broken. That's the entire point. And you continue to do that until you make sure that those people never come back to your homeland, do the same thing. But at the same time, you don't want to go around picking fights all over the world. And unfortunately, prior to the Trump administration, that is what we saw time and time again. The way our military be used, it was wrong. And that's why the American people voted against it. So what did we also see? Well, we also saw the US Military being used for social engineering, for pushing trans programs, for pushing all sorts of just, I'm going to say it, abject insanity, pushing experimental vaccines, pushing all of this nonsense. And look, I got out right before, I want to say, right before the, you know, this all really hit. I did, actually. I had to sit. When I was still in the military, I had to sit through One, Just one actual transgender training for a sensitivity class to have it explain to me as a Navy officer what it would be like if I. And the way that I would be expected to treat a fellow member who was trans. Now, what's interesting is I never had to do that with, you know, serving with anyone in the military. And I, believe me, I served with everyone I served with. I served with white people, I served with black people, I served with Hispanics, I served with Asians. I served with just everything under the sun. Everything you can think of.

[Eric Garrison]

All right?

[Jack Posobiec]

Christians, Muslims, Jews, serve them all. Okay. Probably some Buddhists too, if I think about it, you know, and the thing is, we never had any special classes on how to treat one another. It was very simple. Treat each other with respect. That was it. That was the bottom line. And get the job done. And the standard was always, as long as you can get the job done and perform your work up to mission standard, then you are good to go. That's the standard of the military that I joined. Right. You have to have. And you have to maintain physical standards. You have to maintain your physical fitness. You have to maintain all of that as well, as well as grooming standards set. For example, right now, I have a beard. I am out of grooming standards. My hair is in grooming standards. That is basically the way the military used to work, and that is the way that now, finally, thank God, the Department of War is returning the United States military to military operational readiness. So join with us today as we embark on the Human Events Department War special. Stay tuned. With the special interviews of various officials from the department filmed right inside the Department of War, the Pentagon itself. Folks, you're in for a big treat. Stay tuned. Human Events Daily continues.

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[Patrick Weaver]

Thanks for having me.

[Jack Posobiec]

I mean, you work here, so actually, for me, it's. You know, it wasn't that far. How long was the commute to the. To the studio?

[Patrick Weaver]

Two minutes.

[Jack Posobiec]

Two minutes. All right. All right. So. But no, I. You know, just very appreciative of the department and the Secretary for allowing us to have the space here and, you know, to be able to do the show, do these. This series of interviews, because I do think that that level of transparency is something that we haven't seen before, quite frankly.

[Eric Garrison]

And I.

[Jack Posobiec]

So we really appreciate it.

[Patrick Weaver]

Absolutely. Well, we're excited to have fresh journalists here who care about reporting the truth and the good work we're doing here.

[Jack Posobiec]

Well, look, our job is to get the story out. Whatever the story is, whatever the truth is, we're going to get that out. And so, you know, if something comes up and, you know, we saw that, you know, the whole mainstream media was going off about these, you know, this. This drone strike off of Venezuela. And, you know, I remember just with my own background, as, you know, prior Navy intelligence, that's. That's kind of SOP, actually. And, you know, Admiral Bradley, having been a Dev Group commander at six, you know, he's. He's following SOP that's always been that way for. For the background of. Of his entire time in the Navy. So, you know, it was really something where even with my own background knowledge, having been in the military, just I knew their story didn't make any sense, and. But look, you know, I thought that the answers that we received. We had a briefing yesterday on that. It was. I thought it was fantastic to be able to just sit here and ask basic questions and then hear the direct answers. What a concept.

[Patrick Weaver]

Exactly. And the left and the fake news have made it clear from day one that they do not support our mission with stopping the cartels and the drug flow to the United States. And when the President designated these as foreign terrorist organizations, he unleashed a whole new level of authorities for us to stop the drug flow into the United States. And that is what we're going to do.

[Jack Posobiec]

Well, and I think that's actually been something that a lot of the media in this town doesn't quite understand, is that these are the very same authorities that would be used in centcom occasionally in Indo, paycom. It's just. And by the way, in the past certainly have been used for a whole variety of hostile actors in the Western hemisphere. In Northcom, paycom. It's just that hasn't been the focus recently.

[Patrick Weaver]

Absolutely. And as you know, and all of Trump's supporters know, when the President campaigned, he made promises to secure our homeland.

[Jack Posobiec]

That's right.

[Patrick Weaver]

And that's exactly what we're doing through the border and all our operations with northcom currently.

[Jack Posobiec]

So on the NORTHCOM front, obviously, you know, we're sitting here a couple of days ago, we saw the, you know, the horrific situation outside of the White House with the West Virginia National Guardsmen, the two of them being shot, one killed, one, as we talk, currently in critical condition, of course, praying for him. But when, when we look at those operations throughout northcom, what is the Secretary's position on, I guess, obviously force protection for those operations, but the continuance of these operations and the priority that really seems that the administration is making on it.

[Patrick Weaver]

If I can take it a step back, if you remember in la, when the President deployed the guard there in a federalized status, it was clear that the President and Secretary Hegseth wanted to use soldiers to protect federal law enforcement agents who were out there arresting illegal migrants and keeping law and order in this country. So our view has never changed. It will not change. This administration, we have the backs of the law enforcement officers who are out there keeping Americans safe. And then with DC specifically from day one, Secretary Hegseth authorized the soldiers to carry sidearms, and he continues to have that policy where our soldiers will have their weapons with them.

[Jack Posobiec]

And so it's. The policy is authorized now that each individual commander can make different decisions on that. I know this has come up and there's still more reporting, I think, to come out on exactly the status of this. But I do understand and believe yesterday Press Secretary Wilson had said that they're looking to do specifically in D.C. and probably others, more direct patrols with local law enforcement and the guardsmen together to help that, you know, watch each other's backs, basically.

[Patrick Weaver]

Absolutely. And this is something we do on the border every day. Our soldiers patrol alongside U.S. border Patrol and other federal agents. So I think incorporating that in D.C. and other cities is a great move.

[Jack Posobiec]

No, I think that's right. And so the whole idea being that when they're deployed in a title, obviously D.C. is a little bit different, but when. When they're deployed in a title 10 capacity, that's always to support state law enforcement and. Or, excuse me, state law enforcement and federal law enforcement. Because you talk about L. A, for example, these ICE agents were facing threats. They were facing hostility, they were facing riots. I mean, that's the entire purpose of the National Guard, I thought.

[Patrick Weaver]

Absolutely. And we've seen this in Chicago, Portland, Louisiana. These protesters are throwing rocks, damaging vehicles and government property, but then also injuring federal law enforcement officers. And wherever we can, we will use our soldiers, either in a National Guard status or a federalized status to protect law enforcement.

[Jack Posobiec]

And if I, If I could add just, just, just to the list, you know, I am from the Philadelphia area, so we can't. We can't leave Philly off. We can't leave Philly off the list.

[Patrick Weaver]

Absolutely. And I'm from Lancaster, so. Oh, you're from Lancaster. Oh, no way.

[Jack Posobiec]

Yeah, There you go.

[Patrick Weaver]

Yeah. Philadelphia has seen lots of crime and drug use there, and it's, it's gone downhill.

[Jack Posobiec]

Well, unfortunately, even Lancaster City has. Has some issues these days.

[Patrick Weaver]

Absolutely.

[Jack Posobiec]

You know, you look at the lawlessness and, you know, when it. Just to take a step back, I think the administration's only been in, you know, 10 months. 10 months into this, and it seems like an entire policy change from the previous administration to now. How do you view, you know, the, the interagency and the way that they've sort of dealt with this. This big sea change? Because I seem to get a sense certainly from the media side there's a lot of whiplash.

[General Tata]

But.

[Jack Posobiec]

But how's it been actually inside the admin. Inside the government?

[Eric Garrison]

Yeah.

[Patrick Weaver]

I will say, as someone who was sworn in as a political. On January 20, we got to work that same day with the interagency, specifically on border at the time. But to this day, we talk daily about operations, whether it's law enforcement and our support to them, border operations or Western hemisphere operations. So all that to say, I've never seen government agencies work like this together. And when the President signed his executive order clarifying the military's role at the border, that brought the Department of War up to be an equal player on the border operations instead of supporting DHS in a support role.

[Jack Posobiec]

Well, and as it turns out, that the. The poorest border, the massive level of crossings that we saw over the previous four years, 20 million perhaps. It's a choice, isn't it? It actually is something that can be solved by policy.

[Patrick Weaver]

Absolutely. And leading up into the 24 election, you heard everyone say that it took an act of Congress to secure it.

[Jack Posobiec]

Right, right. That was the whole.

[Patrick Weaver]

That was the talking point.

[Jack Posobiec]

The whole talking point. And they were trying to say Republicans were. If I remember this, they were saying Republicans weren't for the bill, therefore it was the Republicans fault.

[Patrick Weaver]

Absolutely.

[Jack Posobiec]

It made no sense.

[Patrick Weaver]

Yeah. But what we found out on January 20th is it only took a President who cared. And when he declared the national emergency at the border, we had troops headed to the border on January 24, just four days after.

[Jack Posobiec]

Now, when you are looking at the border and we talk about this, and my friend Bill Milligan over at Fox, he always says, you know, I had to stop covering the border because there's nothing to cover. Which I do think is funny. He's actually here in D.C. now. But at the same time, I have to imagine that there are still threats that you are tracking on the border or across the border. What are some of the things if can share with us that. That you do still see down there?

[Patrick Weaver]

Absolutely. Well, the cartels have had a hard time making money because they can't smuggle humans or drugs across the border.

[Jack Posobiec]

Which is why they're switching to the boats.

[Patrick Weaver]

Yeah. So they've switched to the boats. But they're increasingly dangerous because they're trying to find ways to make money because they're hurting for funds. So that's one example. Drones. We've seen them weaponize drones and start testing them. So getting our counter UAS systems up on the border to protect our soldiers and the federal agents on the border, that's huge. And then just continuing to adapt to the illegal aliens who are in our homeland that the Biden administration allowed into our country.

[Jack Posobiec]

Specifically on those illegal aliens, are you tracking or do you ever see. Occasionally, because there's questions. Obviously this Afghan migrant guy was different. Different capacity. But do you ever see opportunities or potential threats, indications and warnings of perhaps plots or operations that they're trying to use to go after Americans or to go after law enforcement or military?

[Patrick Weaver]

Yeah, I would say that's probably a better question for federal law enforcement partners and their authorities. But one thing that's unique that we created in this administration is the Homeland Security Task Force, which combines all the federal law enforcement agencies, the nctc, which is headed by Joe Kent and then the Department of War to target those criminals and foreign terrorist organizations now in the homeland. So probably a better question for Joe Kent and federal law enforcement, but we're excited about this opportunity to find these illegals who are here to harm our citizens.

[Jack Posobiec]

Well, that's great because I remember of course I served at DIA for part of my time when I was in and they had DCTC which would work with nctc, but boy, sometimes, sometimes it was like, like herding cats between the two of those two.

[Patrick Weaver]

Absolutely. Well, I think the NCTC has a new mission and under this President they will have better results.

[Jack Posobiec]

I'm really glad to hear that. When, when you look out at the status of these operations, particularly in northcom, looking at the cities, do, do you see. And I've got to ask, you know, are there any cities where you're looking to expand to?

[Patrick Weaver]

Yeah, I would say when it comes to federal law enforcement, if the President asks us to protect his agents, we will do that. We have some ongoing litigation in Chicago and Portland, so we're kind of waiting to see how the Supreme Court rolls on that. But the President again has made it clear that he's a President of law and order and we're ready to support however he needs.

[Jack Posobiec]

Okay, so it's almost like wait and see how the Supreme Court cases go and then depending on the ruling, future operations will work to comply with that.

[Patrick Weaver]

Absolutely. And if protesters and rioters are attacking agents, the President hates to see that, rightfully so. And we're ready to support him. And some of the left attacks me for being one of the youngest advisors to the Secretary. And I'm excited to work on these issues because I know a lot of young people across America care about these issues too and protecting our homeland. So I'm excited to work on this.

[Jack Posobiec]

Oh yeah. How can you not trust a guy from Lancaster?

[Patrick Weaver]

Exactly. Thank you.

[Jack Posobiec]

Take it easy. Thank you very much.

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[General Tata]

You know, they talk about influencers.

[Jack Posobiec]

These are influencers and they're friends of mine.

[General Tata]

Jack, where's Jack? Jack.

[Jack Posobiec]

He's got a great job. I'm very excited to be on here and not the first time that I've interviewed him, but certainly in a different capacity. I know you as General Tata, but you are currently the Under Secretary of War for Personnel and Readiness. Thank you so much for joining us. Human Events Daily.

[General Tata]

Great to be with you, Chuck.

[Jack Posobiec]

And so, you know, when it looks at it, the way I look at it is you're in charge of the home front. Does that make sense?

[General Tata]

That and many other things. But you know, we've, we've got 3 million men and women in uniform and non department civilians and their families. Right. I've got 160 Dodea schools or do we now Department of War Education activity schools globally, Europe, Asia, here in the United states have over 600 child development centers, have over 300 youth activity centers. We've got, we're in charge of recruiting, retention and transition into civilian life after you've been a soldier, sailor, airman, marine, guardian, individual. And so the broad responsibilities here, I've got 955 military hospitals and clinics and 40,000 healthcare providers. That's all home front stuff, that's all operational stuff. And so the, the portfolio is vast and broad. I got 230 commissaries feeding the home front.

[Jack Posobiec]

Oh, believe me, if you, if there's a problem with the commissary, the whole base is going to have.

[General Tata]

Right. And so in a very lean team back here in the building and around Northern Virginia that's operating all of this. And, and so our focus has been on taking a look at the presidential priorities. Golden Dome Shipbuilding, Southwest Border and reorienting personnel policy to support President Trump's priorities. And Then taking a look at secretary's priorities, re establish deterrence, rebuild the military, restore the warrior ethos. How do we do that? We rip the DEI and CRT out of all the childcare stuff and the education things that we're talking about. I've got all the service academies looking hard at those curricula. We pulled out the CRT and DEI out of that. And you know, that's where.

[Jack Posobiec]

No, you're saying there was CRT and DEI being taught. And when you say service academy, you're talking West Point, you're talking Annapolis, you're.

[General Tata]

Talking air Force Academy, 16 Military College, North Georgia, Citadel, VMI.

[Eric Garrison]

Right.

[General Tata]

And so forth.

[Jack Posobiec]

And they were teaching that those are meant to be the leaders of the future military. And rather than being taught war fighting strategy, how to think of a commander, they were being taught this kind of stuff.

[General Tata]

They were being taught that plus some of the other things. So we've ripped all that out and we've refocused in the Secretary's message, president's message. Let's focus on those things that unify us instead of those things that divide us. Let's not identify all the differences that we have. Let's identify our common purpose, unity of purpose, unit of your command, lethality, mission focus. Everybody from tooth to tail are focused on the same thing that's being a physically fit, mentally fit war fighter to get out there. And how do you do that? It starts with what you were talking about on the home front. You have good quality education for your children. You help with spouse employment and reducing that. We have a 20% spouse unemployment number. We have a goal to reduce that by 5% this year. And it comes to portability, we move people around so much. How do we, how do we get the licensure and certifications right? If you're moving from Virginia to California and you're a teacher or you're a doctor or you're a lawyer, how do you make sure that your education activity, if you're in Virginia, moved to Camp Pendleton and Marine Corps base, that if you're on page 67 of the history book, you're on page 68. And the next day when you move to Camp Pendleton and that unity of purpose and, you know, taking care of the family, If I'm a trigger puller in Afghanistan, as I was, and I know my family's taken care of, I can focus on my mission?

[Jack Posobiec]

You know, I had a CEO once in the Navy who. That's exactly what he said. He said you have to take care of home before you can take care of the mission. Because if you are worried about home, you're not. He said, you're going to be no good to me on mission. You're going to be no good to me.

[General Tata]

Right. You'll be looking for that call, looking for that email, looking for that letter, making sure everything's okay if you got a sick child or if there's a.

[Jack Posobiec]

Pay issue, which, you know, certainly happens. All of that, as we all know.

[General Tata]

And you know, I take a look, I got such a professional team working for me and I, you know, I was at the other end, all professionals here. But I think about, why is my team so good? You can't fail on recruiting. You got to make your numbers. You can't fail on pay. You got to pay the troops. You can't fail on benefits. You got to provide the benefit that they're due, that they're owed.

[Jack Posobiec]

The media told me the troops weren't getting paid.

[General Tata]

Yeah, well, the troops are getting paid. And during the shutdown, right, during a lapse in government, you know, the shutdown, civilians weren't being paid because, you know, including me, senior levels. But we made sure the troops got paid. We found the money legally to pay the troops during the government shutdown. And that was part of my job. The comptroller would go to the secretary, say, here's how we can do it. We checked with Earl Matthews, general counsel, and he made sure that troops got all their pay and as they should have. They should not be caught in the political crosswinds that are happening whenever there's a continuing resolution or a shutdown or whatever Congress needs to do its job. And I appreciate the fact that they were able to resolve that and allow us to move forward with, you know, full, you know, full department pay and benefits.

[Jack Posobiec]

Well, that's absolutely clear. What would, what would you say just on that point and final question, because I know we're, we're pulling you out and we've got a lot to go on. What would you say your general message is as, when you, you know, focus on these issues for the troops.

[General Tata]

So my message is for the troops is that you have a secretary and you have a president that are focused on your health and welfare so that you can be the most lethal fighting individual in force in, in the world, and that we are going to create this cohesive, focused force to deter our enemy so we never have to go to war. That's my message. You got a focused commander in chief, a focused secretary, single minded, purpose of peace through strength.

[Jack Posobiec]

Great to see you again.

[General Tata]

Great to see you, John.

[Jack Posobiec]

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[Eric Garrison]

And Jack.

[Jack Posobiec]

Where's Jack? Where's Jack?

[General Tata]

Where is he?

[Jack Posobiec]

Jack, I want to see you. Great job, Jack. Thank you. What a job you do. You know, we have an incredible thing. We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the guys who've been getting policies, are very excited here to be at Human Events Daily. We're sitting down with Eric Garrison. He is the senior advisor for strategy for the Secretary of War. Eric, welcome to the show.

[Eric Garrison]

Thank you very much for being here.

[Jack Posobiec]

Want to say thank you again for actually having us and hosting us here in the Pentagon. This is. Is obviously new for us. We've done done a couple of shows over at the White House and. And been with, you know, their press corps. But I gotta say, you know, the. The studio digs here are a little bit nicer.

[Eric Garrison]

We got a lot of room in the Pentagon.

[Jack Posobiec]

There is a lot of room in the Pentagon. So you've known Pete for a long time. You served together, you deployed together. You're now working at this level of strategy. How would you say your experiences and his experiences and having gone to war together have shaped what you do now in terms of the office.

[Eric Garrison]

Those experiences that we shared in combat, they shape you for the rest of your life. You learn different things in combat that allow you. We're a little different than some of the folks that haven't been yet. Some of the things is are your priorities are forever changed on focusing on what do you need to do to train your soldiers, prepare them for war, lead them for combat, and bring them back home. In combat, you see the thing you make, it's you, you narrow your focus. Like we're totally focused. You know, battle drills, medical training, physical fitness, right. Marksmanship, Your units can do that to the highest of standards. They're able to do everything our country asked them to do, which is to go fight and win our nation's wars. And so having that experience, especially serving together, really that's what we're focused on. And as you can see, a lot of the things the secretary is completely driven the whole department to, we want higher standards. We want the soldiers to raise the level of their physical fairness. We want the soldiers, this, all the service members to be experts in whatever their field is their assigned weapon, because we want them. And when we assign them a mission, when the President gives us the priorities, this is what we need to do. We've created those options for the President. They're trained and ready as we can make them. And the whole goal is get them to get out there, complete the mission and bring them all home.

[Jack Posobiec]

Well, it really seems that certainly in the prior administration, even before then, to an extent, that the focus was elsewhere.

[Eric Garrison]

Shall we say, over the past. And it goes back quite. I served for 26 years in uniform, then I was a Department of Defense contractor, Then I was a Department of Defense civilian. We'd gotten to where the military was focused on a lot of non war fighting tasks. And as a unit, as especially for a small unit leader, you don't have a whole lot of time because you don't know, especially in some units like the 101st Airborne, 82nd Airborne, 75th Ranger, you don't know when it is you're going to be called out to conduct an operation for real. So you only have so much time to prepare your, your troops. And when the units are bogged down with all these non war fighting tasks, some of these things that should absolutely have nothing to do with the military, some of what, you know, looked like social experiments, we don't have time for it. We have a duty as leaders to make sure these soldiers, these service members are trained and ready. And when we pile on things that have nothing to do with that, we shouldn't be focused on that at all. What the secretary's done and because of President Trump and his leadership is allowed to get the military to be focused on what the country needs the military to be. And that's trained and ready once again to fight our nation and win our nation's wars.

[Jack Posobiec]

Well, not only that, but it's the relaxing of standards that you can just see it. You can see it when you're in the area and you're around some of the various military installations that are all throughout D.C. and you can just see the standards have become relaxed when you see, you know, I'm always looking at sailors as prior Navy. But, you know, I said, how is this person just walking around like that in uniform? If I was, you know, in this guy's unit, I'd say I would have pulled him aside. So what are you doing? And you just see it all over and over, and people think that's something small, but it's not actually. It's something very important, isn't it?

[Eric Garrison]

Oh, it's the most important. Like, if these service members are not physically fit, they're not going to be able to do what we're asking them to do. And they shouldn't find this out when it's too late, when we put them somewhere in harm's way. You can go, like, when we started going back and look at this, there was like a whole bunch of people and some senior folks retired in uniform were really gouging into the secretary about some of the decisions and some of the focus. I don't know how anybody can go back and say, hey, we don't want higher standards. We don't want our service members to be in better shape. We don't want them to be experts in their occupational field. I don't know how anybody could go back and say, there's nothing political with that. There's nothing because the enemy doesn't look at us of, you're a Republican, you're a Democrat, you're this ethnicity. All the enemy wants to do is kill Americans.

[General Tata]

Right?

[Eric Garrison]

And it's our duty as leaders, especially for combat organizations, hence the Department of War, to make sure they have the best equipment, they're trained to the highest standards, that they're able to go accomplish the mission, get the job done and come home safely. And that's what the secretary's whole focus in. And thank God we have President Trump that has paved the way to allow us to focus on this.

[Jack Posobiec]

Well, and it's been something where, you know, I remember during, you know, even Pete's confirmation, the secretary, and then when he became secretary, some of the speeches he's given and they, they try to twist his words to make it out as if he's saying something political, but he's not having standards in the military Goes all the way back. We were just this, this past weekend. I'm from the Philadelphia area and I took my kids out to Valley Forge and, and I said, I was teaching them. I said, kids, this is the, this is where the first veterans came from. This was the first military. The United States. This was the first United States Army. It's Continental Army. We didn't have the United States yet. And that's what it was all about. It was the harshest possible conditions. You've lost every major US City at that point. You're out there, you're in cabins. Many times they didn't even have shoes. They're walking around makeshift tents and huts and different things. And it was just the elements, right? So you have to be willing and able and capable of dealing with all of that to be able to come forward. And I, you know, I see some of the things that we have now, and I just think, you know, are we, are we treating that legacy properly?

[Eric Garrison]

We're definitely, you know, changing the, the culture back to where it needs to be. It's a huge thing. But I can tell you I have the opportunity to go out, visit units from all the different services and what we're doing here. The decisions and policies that are being put in place by Secretary Hegseth are 100% reaching and affecting these units. And the troops are all on board. They want. They want to be part of a winning team. There's no, there's no mistake on why the recruiting numbers are through.

[Jack Posobiec]

I was just. My next question.

[Eric Garrison]

There's no mistake on why we looked at this year the highest number of folks going to Special Forces selection in years. Largest class. This is all for a reason. You know, nobody wants to be part of a losing team. People want to. They want the people that join the military and enlist and then get commissioned and come in. They want to be part of a winning team, and they want to be the best. They don't want us to lower standards. They want to challenge. These are the folks we need to be focused on. These are the folks that we want, and those are the ones that are raising their right hand to serve the country and do the things that they're.

[Jack Posobiec]

Doing for us well and particularly. And you only have a couple of minutes left. But one of the biggest issues, and I know with your breadth of experience, you'll know what I mean when I say this. One of the biggest red flags that I saw over the past couple of years prior to your administration coming in was the fact that military families were starting to say that they didn't want their sons and daughters to join. Talk to me about the importance of making sure that military families still continue that tradition of service.

[Eric Garrison]

We say all the time, this is a family business. I mean, I, I remember the first time I went to West Point and I got to go out there and spoke and spent a few days with the first ease, which is the graduating class. And first time I'd been there, never didn't care about the officer training. I was an nco.

[Jack Posobiec]

Yeah.

[Eric Garrison]

So the first time I got.

[Jack Posobiec]

You worked for a living.

[Eric Garrison]

Yep. And. But I was surprised on. And it really hit home on how many of these kids, these officers getting ready to be commissioned were all sons of people that I had served with. And you don't just see that on the officer side, it's also on the NCO side. So when you. When we got to the point where these parents are saying, I don't want my sons and daughters to do this, we were at a breaking point. We were at a. And I'm telling you, I don't. I think if we would have went a few more years, we would have been past the point of no return. I think in some of the unit, some of the things that's your core.

[Jack Posobiec]

Recruitment pool right there. 100 and. And they're gonna. The ones who grew up around the military, they, they're the most familiar with it. They know the routines. Grew up on the bases, can always go to mom or dad for information. I mean, you lose that, you're. You're broken. Totally broken.

[Eric Garrison]

Yeah, we were on the way. But once again, President Trump and Secretary Hegseth, you know, their priorities, the agenda. We're able to turn that around pretty quick. And you could see it. Every unit and every service member we meet with, you can see it's. We're going in the right direction.

[Jack Posobiec]

The right direction. Eric Garrison, thank you so much for joining us.

[Eric Garrison]

It was great to meet.

[Jack Posobiec]

Jack is a great guy. He's written a fantastic book. Everybody's talking about it. Go get it. And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event. And we're going to turn it around.

[General Tata]

And make our country.

[Jack Posobiec]

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And of course this is the way you have, you very careful, you have to be very careful with the way that you, you know, you word this because they'll think, oh well, the second one is worse. The second one's like this. The second one, no, no, no, no, I'm talking about the current drone strikes on the drug boats in the Caribbean. The drug boats, strikes. And guess what, think about this. And I'm pulling it up right now. There's almost 60% of Americans who support this out of the Harvard Harris poll. 60%. It is a, literally a 6040 issue. Should be an 8020 issue. Honestly, guess what Americans don't care about, about drug boats getting mercked. It's really as simple as that. Americans want their military actually defending America. And look, you know, we're going to be doing this, this series on regime change coming up around Christmas time. And I want people to dig into that because for so long we've been using the US military overseas and they paint it with these romantic images and use this romantic flowery language of oh, we're fighting them over there, so we have to fight them over here. Oh, we're fighting the ayatollah, we're fighting the tsar, we're fighting the mullahs, whoever, who, you know, whoever we're fighting, et cetera, et cetera, to the terrorists. But at the end of the day, we don't actually use the US Military, or we hadn't up until this point for direct threats against the homeland, just actual direct threats. And people say, well, you know, most fentanyl isn't coming in from Venezuela. There's more coming in from Mexico. There's more coming in. You know, there's more cocaine from. From Venezuela. Guess what, guess what, guess what. I totally support killing the Mexican cartel members, too. What a concept. I remember saying this. I was debating the Libertarian. When I debated the Libertarian candidate for president last year, Chase Oliver, and Ryan Grim was the host. I said, specifically, I said, well, I do actually disagree with. With the idea of legalizing drugs in the United States. And they said, well, the war on drugs has been a failure. And I said, I disagree. It has not been a failure. I said, what do you mean? Of course been a failure. I said, no, I disagree, because you haven't allowed us to actually fight drugs like a war. And in a war, you don't sit around and fight it like a policing operation. You kill people. That's the difference. In a war, you kill the enemy. You fight them with violence, and you kill them. So I now, I said this to libertarians. Libertarians lost their minds because libertarians don't actually believe in such things. But it does get to a point. It does absolutely get to a point where someone is a terrorist or someone who's a cartel member and you want to kill them. And that's what's actually best for your country. That's actually what's best for the defense of your homeland. It's the defense of your people. Think about how many American kids get killed by fentanyl. How many American families get destroyed because of a fentanyl murder. You're saving lives because these people are animals. They're disgusting. What they do to our country is disgusting and divisive. And that is why it is okay to use the military in these types of operations. And that is why 60% of Americans support it. It's really simple. And by the way, let me explain to you how these. How these double taps work, okay? Because as a guy, you may have been involved in a couple, three drone strikes in my previous profession, the mission is not concluded until the objective has been neutralized. What does that mean? If your job is to Take out the drug boat. You take out the drug boat until it's at the bottom of the ocean. And if people are in the drug boat, that's what we call in the military collateral damage. Now, you may not like that, but that's the truth, the fact. And the military exists in the real world, and you have to deal with big boy issues, and big boy issues come with big boy answers, and big boy answers means having to suck it up, buttercup. So you say, well, wait a minute. Why just leave the guys? This is like. This is like the same type of rhetoric you hear when. When they say, why couldn't the cops just have shot him in the arm? Why couldn't the cops just have shot him in the arm? Why they have to kill him? Why they have to do that? It's so sad. It's awful. You know, Kyle Rittenhouse actually did shoot an arm off of somebody. And look at how the liberals all treated him. He actually did the thing that you guys have said for years that you wanted him to do, that you wanted someone to do. Kyle Rittenhouse does it. And look how they treated Kyle Rittenhouse. Gage grows in crutz, right? Communist antifa. Gabe. Right. I'll never forget that guy even had to change his name. It got that bad. So when you look at the situation, it's very simple. If these guys were left in the water, they would be picked up by their gun running buddies or their cartel buddies, and they would then be shot by the cartel buddies for abandoning their cargo. Do you understand how cartels operate? Do you have any inkling of how that world operates? You have any clue? Have you even given a second of thought to it? They are not like us. They do not operate like us. This is not like your kids, Little League team or something. My gosh. These are hardened narco terrorists running narco states. In many cases, like Venezuela, like Mexico. And so, yes, you do have to use violence. Is it unfortunate? Of course. Of course it's unfortunate. But let me tell you something right now. Let me tell you something right now. When it comes to defending my family, and this is the way you have to think about this. When is there an amount of violence? Is there an amount of violence that you would not cross? Is there a line that you would not cross when it comes to defending your family? No. Because for me, there is an unlimited amount of violence that I would be willing to employ in the defense of my wife and in the defense of my children. And it's as simple as that. It's really as simple as that. So call it what you want, but it's the truth, and it's got to be the truth, and that's the way the world works. And I said it to Megan Kelly. Now, I wasn't talking about cartels. I was talking about leftist violence at the time and these leftist killer networks, the Marxist killers, like the ones who killed Charlie. And I said, megan, no offense, but it's time to let the man handle things. It's time to let the men handle things. And when it comes to the military, that's what I mean. People are going to say, oh, no, you're going to. What about women in the military? Guys. Guys know what I'm talking about. When I say men in this sense, I mean real men making real decisions to provide real defense for our families, our cities and our homeland. And thank you to Secretary Hegseth, to President Trump for working to do that. Because I've been down there and I've seen the type of operations, the type of work they're putting in, and that is their only concern at all. They are mission focused, and they're focused on protecting the United States, States of America, and the people dwell within it. Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.

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