Hi, I'm Ben Parker from the Bullwork.

And hi, I'm Mark Hurtling from the Bullwork as a contributor.

And we are here with another episode of Command Post, and both Ben and I are extremely excited.

We've got a lot of topics to cover, some sublime, some ridiculous, but we're also going to do a deep dive into my old dead uncle, Carl Von Klauswitz.

We have two different books that we're going to talk about and bring you up to speed on some wartime theory.

What do we got, Ben?

If you were in the comments for last week's episode of command post on the bulwark.com,

you saw that there was a suggestion for a Klausovitz book club. I don't know that we're going to commit to that because I read it all the way through once and I don't know that we want to do it again. But we did get our copies down from the shelves and we'll do a little bit of Klausvitz at the end here. But first we have to talk about the major news, which, Matt, if we are ready to pull up the clip, we can let the Secretary of Defense announce

for himself. New policy is simple. If you, an American warrior, entrusted to defend this nation,

believe that the flu vaccine is in your best interest,

then you are free to take it. You shouldn't. But we will not force you because your body,

your faith, and your convictions are not negotiable, your health. It's common sense. It's the kind

of common sense approach we're undertaking in this department. Rest assured that under President Trump, the war department will always honor our brave warriors

and do everything we can to restore the American people's trust in their military for generations

to come.

So service members, I guess, don't have to get the flu vaccine now.

He introduced that by talking about how there was such an infringement on service members' freedom.

When the terrible, awful Biden administration made all the service members get the COVID vaccine.

But no more.

We're putting freedom back in the force, stuff like that.

General, you wrote about this in morning shots today.

You had an item all about your reaction immediately to seeing this news. Why don't you explain that for us?

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