{"id":4563,"date":"2025-12-25T03:08:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T03:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/2025-in-review-policy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T03:08:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T03:08:29","slug":"2025-in-review-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/2025-in-review-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 in review: policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Hegseth stands up anti-DEI task force <\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSome of the task force\u2019s targets, like quotas and discriminatory promotion policies, don\u2019t exist.<br \/><small>January 30, 2025 | Meghann Myers<\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bloodbath: Joint Chiefs chair, CNO, Air Force vice chief, three top JAGs to be replaced <\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTrump, Hegseth announce plans to oust several of the military\u2019s top officers amid larger DEI purge.<br \/><small>February 21, 2025 | Audrey Decker and Bradley Peniston<\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pentagon to fire up to 61,000 workers, starting with 5,400 next week <\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAfter the first round of firings, DOD will launch a review intended to cut the civilian workforce by 5 to 8%, a personnel official said.<br \/><small>February 21, 2025 | Meghann Myers<\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong>In Pentagon shakeup, some see bid for more secret actions, less oversight <\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTrump&#8217;s unconventional pick for Joint Chiefs chair brings deep special-warfare experience.<br \/><small>February 23, 2025 | Patrick Tucker<\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong>Confusion, fear as changes whipsaw Defense workforce <\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWorkforce cuts, travel freezes, and administrative burdens are leaving civilians shaken.<br \/><small>March 12, 2025 | Meghann Myers<\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong>SecDef gives DOD leaders less than two weeks to lay out cuts, changes <\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nA Friday memo opens a new phase in Hegseth\u2019s hurried effort to shrink the defense workforce.<br \/><small>March 29, 2025 | Bradley Peniston<\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong>Military support to law enforcement is supposed to be temporary. DOD is making it a core mission <\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cSealing the border,\u201d helping ICE, and counter-drug ops top the list, according to Pentagon documents.<br \/><small>August 31, 2025 | Meghann Myers<\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong>More than 60K defense civilians have left under Hegseth\u2014but officials are mum on the effects <\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMonths into a hastily ordered overhaul, officials declined to disclose metrics, discuss problems.<br \/><small>September 25, 2025 | Meghann Myers<\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong>SecDef uses unprecedented meeting to unveil 10 personnel, due-process reviews <\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAfter summoning senior officers from around the world, Hegseth invites them to resign if they don\u2019t agree with him.<br \/><small>September 30, 2025 | Meghann Myers<\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Make Europe Great Again\u2019 and more from a longer version of the National Security Strategy <\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nA fuller version reviewed by Defense One outlines the Trump administration\u2019s plans for shedding old relationships and creating new ones.<br \/><small>December 9, 2025 | Meghann Myers<\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as \u2018warrior dividend\u2019 bonus <\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMore than $2.9 billion in reconciliation funds was allocated to beef up troop housing allowances. Now it\u2019s being used for $1,776 checks.<br \/><small>December 18, 2025 | Thomas Novelly<\/small><svg class=\"content-tombstone\">\n<use xlink:href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/static\/base\/svg\/spritesheet.svg#icon-d1-logo-tiny\"\/>\n<\/svg><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '10155007044873614'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '1546266055584988',\n      autoLogAppEvents : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v2.11'\n    });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/policy\/2025\/12\/2025-policy\/410386\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hegseth stands up anti-DEI task force &#13; Some of the task force\u2019s targets, like quotas and discriminatory promotion policies, don\u2019t exist.January 30, 2025 | Meghann Myers Bloodbath: Joint Chiefs chair, CNO, Air Force vice chief, three top JAGs to be replaced &#13; Trump, Hegseth announce plans to oust several of the military\u2019s top officers amid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.defenseone.com\/media\/img\/cd\/2025\/12\/24\/Defense_Secretary_Pe_2500\/open-graph.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4565,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions\/4565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawahsolutions.com\/range\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}