No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement.”More from Harold MeyersonLeaders sensitive to such rules of engagement were out. Knox, who went on to command Washington’s artillery throughout the Revolution and then became our first secretary of war, was a genuine fatso. But combine his directions with Trump’s, and a more complete and accurate picture of Trump policy emerges. But desk warriors and math majors have no place in the military as Trump and Hegseth reshape it. In response to which, Trump, Hegseth, and their ilk offer performative displays of what they consider compensatory hypermasculinity, defined in their view by unrestrained violence against people they don’t like.