Donald Trump, claiming a mandate from his narrow popular vote win, intends to purge the U.S. military from top to bottom and put a Fox News host in charge of the whole thing, hoping to root out any “woke” dissenters and install loyalists in their place who will not object to his using America’s armed forces in ways that may be ill-advised,

Trump's pick of Hegseth for Defense secretary puts a Washington outsider at the front of the Pentagon. On his agenda: targeting woke issue, and women in combat.