Trump’s Expected Military Reset: Culture War Counteroffensive

President-elect Trump is expected to transform the U.S. military from the Pentagon, with promises to slash spending, thin the top ranks and roll back efforts to make the military more inclusive to transgender and women soldiers.

While Trump has not presented clear policies for the Defense Department or yet named a nominee to head the Pentagon, his allies and former administration officials have laid out a blueprint for deep change.

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Carlton Haelig, a fellow in the defense program at the Center for a New American Security, said the Pentagon could benefit from a more competitive defense industry, if that ends up being the aim of a Trump administration.

“I’d hope to see them encourage but also enable greater competition for new entrants to the defense industrial complex, because I do think that it’s a stronger defense department when there’s more options and there’s more competition,” he said.

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