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THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Trump Pentagon Introduces Reforms to Find Generals Who Are Combat Ready, Not Career Bureaucrats.

The Pentagon's new Joint Warfighting Evaluation aims to identify military leaders who excel in combat decision-making, marking a significant shift in how generals are promoted.

The Pentagon’s new Joint Warfighting Evaluation aims to identify military leaders who excel in combat decision-making, marking a significant shift in how generals are promoted. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The Pentagon is rolling out a new Joint Warfighting Evaluation (JWE) to assess senior officers’ ability to solve complex military problems under simulated combat conditions. This marks the most significant overhaul in decades for selecting generals across all military branches, with the new evaluation supplementing existing performance reports starting in fiscal year 2027. DETAIL: Each military service has developed its own version of the JWE, ranging from online simulations to in-person wargames. Officers will face scenarios that…Open

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (Grant Newsham) - The Pacific Ocean of Peace, an idea whose time has not come

Originally published by Sunday Guardian Live.

Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum 2025 “Ocean of Peace”—an expression being bandied about by a handful of Pacific Island leaders—brings to mind the title of an early 1960s musical, “Stop the World, I Want to Get Off.” The main idea behind “Ocean of Peace” is that the Pacific region can opt out of so-called “great power rivalry” and avoid much of the unpleasantness that afflicts the rest of the globe. Some commentators call for a regional security agreement to keep order. Good luck with that. Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka apparently coined “Ocean of Peace” in 2023, and Pacific Island leaders then adopted it at their annual Pacific Island Forum (PIF) meeting in 2025 in Solomon Islands. However,…Open