While Washington Plots Impeachment, Hegseth Is Fixing How America Trains Its Commanders

On the day articles of impeachment were unveiled against him, the secretary ordered a sweeping overhaul of the war colleges: wargames and exams instead of soft seminar grades, combat commanders in the classroom and no more lifetime tenure for new faculty. Veterans Day week is a fitting time to get this right.

By Clara Hughes

On Monday, Rep. Thomas Massie unveiled articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth. The same day, Hegseth did his job. He ordered a top-to-bottom overhaul of the military's professional education system — the senior service colleges and intermediate-level schools where America's majors, lieutenant colonels and colonels learn to lead in war. The Pentagon release put the test in one sentence. Every program will be judged by a "singular, uncompromising standard: 'Does this program forge leaders who will win America's wars?'" That is the right question. It is remarkable it ever needed asking. Keep reading with Altas Premium. Below: exactly what the