At my direction, I'm announcing 33 new directives. A complete overhaul to reform our Department of War senior service colleges. To forge leaders of unmatched competence, sound moral judgment, and resolute warrior ethos. That memo and those 33 directives will be arriving in your inbox today.

For example: Effective immediately, one important change, one of many. There will be no more 80-page theoretical written theses as the primary capstone of war college achievement. In its place, we are establishing competitive SI-assisted war gaming and high-stress decision forcing scenarios as the centerpiece of senior officer evaluation. Now, on that front, I want to give a hat tip to the Naval War College. Understand you've already done two of those SI-assisted war games this year alone. And in our discussions, that was a focal point of where they want this college to go.

We will create a permanent intercollege wargaming architecture across all senior service colleges. No longer will jointness be reduced to an Army colonel and a Navy captain sharing coffee in the same seminar room. True jointness is forged under competitive operational friction. Our service colleges will execute interconnected capstone war games, linking live, virtual, and constructive forces against domains, testing students against complex unscripted peer adversary maneuvers. Furthermore, these war games will feed directly into the newly established joint warfighter exercises and evaluations.

The senior service colleges will serve as the modern proving ground. Through intensive wargaming, combined with vigorous, adversarial, oral defense boards, that eliminate the ability to hide behind academic ghost writers or generative SI. We will stress test every prospective general and flag officer. Promotion to senior rank will not be an administrative reward for longevity. It will be earned by demonstrating the intellectual agility, lethal operational competence, and moral resolve required to win in combat.

Worst of all, nearly all of our senior colleges have been bottlenecked by a severe lack of authorized, modernized Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities or (SCIFs). You cannot study real world pacing threats using open source journalism. You cannot conduce realistic war games against an adversary's operational plans on unclassified networks. That is why today, at my direction, this Department is acting decisively to fix these structural failures: