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The imminent early retirement of Air Force Chief of Staff General David Allen will leave one more Biden-era leftover military chief to be purged. That is General Eric Smith, the commandant of the Marine Corps. Actually, it is the opinion of many current and former Marines that Smith should have been the first to go. If forcibly retired, Smith would join Allen, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Q. Brown, former Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Lisa Franchetti, and the ex-Commandant of the Coast Guard Linda Fagan as casualties of the rot that permeated the defense establishment during the Biden era. This list does not include the Chief of Staff of the Army, who has so far flown beneath Hegseth’s radar as the Army has made significant innovative inroads on the China front. (RELATED: The Feather Merchants: Senior Leaders Subverted the Marine Corps) Brown was too woke, and Allen was accused of not doing enough to counter China in the aerospace area. Franchetti and Fagan were seen as DEI hires not qualified for the job. The indictment against Smith has several counts; all more serious than the other four. (RELATED: Some Generals Should Be Fired. Start With Eric Smith.) First, he has stubbornly persisted in implementing his predecessor’s poorly conceived and badly executed Force Design strategy which abandoned the Marine Corps’ traditional focus on amphibious warfare and its role as the nation’s world-wide general purpose force in readiness in favor of a China-oriented missile heavy force that duplicates capabilities already exercised by the other services with missiles more capable of accomplishing the mission than what the Corps is buying. (RELATED: Getting the Marine Corps Out of the Chinese Finger Cuffs Despite mounting evidence that Force Design is logistically unsustainable, is ignored by the Chinese, and is not wanted or needed by the theater commander or by the regional allies, Smith has stubbornly doubled down on it. General David Berger obviously chose Smith over several more competent and qualified general officers because he was a loyal acolyte who had helped Berger circumvent the Marine Corps’ time-tested Combat Development Process (CDP) to implement Berger’s “genius breakthrough.” The CDP was not perfect, but it was designed to prevent really bad ideas, such as Force Design, from becoming reality. (RELATED: The Marine Corps Has Gone Off the Rails) A second charge is perhaps more serious than the first. In January of this year, General Smith made a false official statement to a group of reporters when he told them that the Marine Corps had never embraced DEI as official policy. (RELATED: Marine Corps Commandant Tells a Whopper) He did this while his staff was desperately trying to purge its websites of all evidence to the contrary. This either showed poor judgment or abysmal ignorance of the fact that anything that goes out on the Internet stays there forever. Either of which should disqualify him from the office of commandant. Any public statement by a Marine Corps commandant to the press is, by nature, an official statement. A false official statement is an offense punishable under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. If I had been caught making a false official statement while a serving Marine Corps officer, I would have been relieved of my position and subject to an Article 32 hearing (the equivalent of a civilian Grand Jury) and likely hauled before a general court-martial. Smith still sits in the commandant’s chair. Some pigs are more equal than others in Smith’s Marine Corps. Third, Smith has contributed to the suppression of professional military expression and discussion in the Marine Corps, begun by General Berger, who made it plain that Force Design was a done deal and that honest discussion and criticism were neither wanted nor would be tolerated. On numerous occasions, members of the faculty at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College invited retired senior Marine Corps officers to debate the merits of Force Design. In each case, the sitting president of the Marine Corps University (MCU) cancelled the invitation. In one instance, a former MCU president was told that he lacked the expertise to discuss the topic. As noted military theorist William Lind has pointed out, a particularly egregious example of the anti-intellectual bent of the Berger/Smith era: Not long ago, a German naval aviator spent some time at the Basic School, the school for all Marine lieutenants.  Because the German officer had a rank above lieutenant, TBS put some lieutenants under him.  He ran his small units German style, according to what maneuver warfare recommends.  The Marine lieutenants loved it.  The German officer was called in by other faculty who said to him, “You are teaching Marines to think.  We don’t want them to think.  We want them just to follow orders.” Prior to Berger/Smith, the old trope about Marines being dumb was an urban legend. The senior Marine Corps leadership actively encouraged informed professional debate among Marines at all levels. No more. The current president of MCU actively encourages spying on officers to uncover thinking that he deems inappropriate. @MarineCorpsU President BGen Matthew Tracy @NavalWarCollege’s Women, Peace & Security conference: “Allyship: 1) recognize the patriarchy, recognize there’s a system of divergence… who’s the [male] jerk at the?party? 2) NEVER check anyone out” This is ??’s war college system pic.twitter.com/Y4THwVtga9 — NOVA Campaigns (@NoVA_Campaigns) January 4, 2025 The fact that this uniformed clown has retained his job says volumes about the current state of what passes for senior Marine Corps leadership. He is so woke that he makes Tim Walz look like Sylvester Stallone. Finally, Smith is not a well man. After a massive heart attack several years ago, he was allowed to remain on active duty while colonels far more qualified to be general officers have been medically retired. Again, some pigs are more equal than others. President Trump deserves a defense team that he can trust. Smith is the last of the woke Biden holdovers. Retiring Smith would clear the decks. Unfortunately, the question of a successor is a problem. The active duty three stars are Berger/Smith acolytes and are hopelessly compromised. Bringing a suitable candidate in from the retired list has precedent in General Dan Caine, the current Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman. There are several superb, currently retired candidates. Until Smith is replaced, the stanza of the Marine Corps Hymn about “keeping our honor clean” remains a hollow slogan. READ MORE from Gary Anderson: It Is Time to Give Putin a ‘B-2 Moment’ Competing With China in the Gray Zone Leadership Is the Key to Fixing Our Air Traffic Control Crisis Gary Anderson is a retired Marine Corps colonel. He was a special advisor to the deputy secretary of defense.

While the Hyde Amendment restricts federal funding for abortion, 16 states, including Illinois, use their own state taxpayer funds to pay for abortion services for Medicaid recipients or those with financial need. Last week, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker greatly expanded state taxpayer complicity in abortion by signing into law a mandate that requires public colleges and universities to provide medication abortions on campus to any student who requests them. Illinois House Bill 3709, which passed with a House vote of 7 to 4 on March 19, 2025, and was signed into law on August 22, 2025, by Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, mandates that if a public college or university’s student health services include a pharmacy, the school must make medication abortion available at a physical location on campus. Not surprisingly, the mandate was promoted and marketed by the campus chapter of Planned Parenthood. Campus abortion activist, Emma Darbro, a University of Illinois recent grad and formerly the president of Planned Parenthood’s Chapter at the University, teamed up with Sydney Turner, the health policy director of the U of I student Planned Parenthood group at the time, to write, market, and administer the student abortion referendum for U of I undergraduates. The survey asked students whether they wanted on-campus access to abortion pills, and through an elaborate marketing campaign, managed to convince a majority of the 6,354 student voters to support the idea. (RELATED: Taking Down Planned Parenthood) Yet, despite Planned Parenthood’s best efforts in the early days of 2024, the on-campus abortion access idea faced strong opposition from the University of Illinois Health Center itself. In April 2024, Awais Vaid, executive health director of the McKinley Student Health Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, told a reporter that the campus was not planning to provide on-campus access to abortion medications because “unfortunately, currently, McKinley does not have the expertise in-house to provide abortion services. On our website, we have provided all the resources that are available.” Vaid’s initial reluctance to provide on-campus access to abortion should not be surprising. Vaid, who has a medical degree from the University of Mumbai in India and worked as a resident physician in Mumbai’s Mahatma Gandhi Hospital, understands what happens when women do not receive proper medical monitoring. Arriving in the United States in 2001 to pursue a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Northern Illinois, Vaid has been the director of the U of I Health Center since 2022. Vaid, a physician, understands how dangerous medication abortion can be when the patient is not well-supervised and monitored. Vaid knows that medication abortion is only for those whose pregnancies have not progressed beyond the 10-11 week gestation, and he knows that his campus facilities were not equipped with the kind of safeguards that are needed for a safe administration of the drugs. (RELATED: Abortion Drug Black Market Is Booming. Will Pam Bondi Intervene?) A National Institutes of Health study revealed that “significant morbidity and mortality have occurred following the use of mifepristone as an abortifacient.” The regimen for medication abortion involves two medications, including mifepristone, which blocks the hormone progesterone, necessary to sustain an unborn child, and misoprostol, which causes uterine contractions to expel the unborn child. Although these drugs can be administered at home or in a clinical setting, the important point is that any patient taking these drugs must be monitored and clinically supported, as there have been many documented cases of death associated with medication abortion. (RELATED: Abortion Drug Black Market Is Booming. Will Pam Bondi Intervene?) The FDA, along with other health agencies, monitors adverse outcomes associated with mifepristone, the primary medication used for abortion procedures — including fatalities. Reported causes of death following medication abortion include undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy (which cannot be resolved by this medication and presents a significant risk), severe infections such as sepsis, excessive bleeding or hemorrhage, administration of the medication beyond recommended gestational limits, and other pre-existing medical conditions that may not be identified by campus health centers. (RELATED: Trump Administration Moves to Ban Abortions in VA Healthcare System) A National Institutes of Health study revealed that “significant morbidity and mortality have occurred following the use of mifepristone as an abortifacient.” The authors stated that “a pre-abortion ultrasound should be required to rule out ectopic pregnancy and confirm gestational age.” It was clear that U of I’s health director, Awais Vaid, wanted no part of dispensing medication abortion to students on his campus. But Illinois Governor Pritzker was determined to please his pro-abortion constituents — even though he must have known that he was putting his own state’s students’ lives at risk. But then again, Illinois is not the first state to provide campus-based abortion services. California was the first to provide medication abortion on its campuses. This occurred despite initial resistance by Dr. Guy Nicolette, assistant vice chancellor for University Health Services at the University of California, Berkley, who told a reporter for the New York  Times that “there are valid security concerns … Not every provider feels competent or comfortable doing this.” California campus abortion was followed by Massachusetts and New York. It is likely that other blue state governors will join since student abortion advocates have been well-funded to garner support on their campuses. Even private colleges are not immune from the abortion activism — and their demands — on their campuses. New York’s Barnard College announced in 2022 that “Barnard will expand student options by ensuring that our campus providers are prepared and trained in the provision of medication abortion by Fall 2023.” Barnard’s policy change was in response to the demands by students led by abortion activist, Niharika Rao, a senior at Barnard College who was described in press accounts as having been campaigning on campus for the law “through advocacy groups” including Advocates for Youth. These pro-abortion student advocates are well-funded and highly motivated. Despite their initial reluctance to provide such risky abortion services, college health directors and their presidents are likely to meet student-activist demands, even at the risk of their own students’ health. READ MORE from Anne Hendershott: AI Chatbots Are Not the Answer to Alleviating Loneliness for Young People ’90s Heroin Chic Is Back … For Boys