No. of Recommendations: 12
He has some trivial thing to say and does not understand the risks.
Hanlon's razor suggests that this is the likely reason.
Not necessarily that the "thing" he wants to talk about is trivial. It might be something rather significant. But I think it's incredibly likely that Hegseth, who has no real experience in military command, simply is unaware that this kind of gathering of the entire top echelon of the military is simply unprecedented. And based on his past behavior in the role (and the attitude of the Administration more broadly), he's not likely to be very receptive to arguments from his underlings about why precedent should be observed.
