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Pete Hegseth’s entire life has been leading to this moment. A war for the very soul of our nation. But can he save the institution responsible for his sense of self from the woke mind virus, or is it too late?  — A production of BRINK Website: thisispropaganda.show Instagram: instagram.com/thisispropagandashow Email: [email protected] — CREDITS  Written, Produced, and Hosted by Malcolm Critcher and Joshua Belhumeur  Co-Producer: Reed Chandler __  Some dialogue and quotations have been condensed, paraphrased, or reconstructed based on contemporaneous accounts, interviews, and other source material. All archival clips from film and television used under fair use, for educational purposes only. 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Here’s Why.” Military.com, 16 Jan. 2024, www.military.com/daily-news/2024/01/16/army-delists-calling-ads-making-them-harder-find-youtube-after-years-of-political-blowback.html. Arnold, Tyler. “Does the Navy Endorse Drag Shows? TikTok Video Has Lawmakers Demanding Answers.” EWTN News, 9 May 2023, www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/does-the-navy-endorse-drag-shows-tik-tok-video-has-lawmakers-demanding-answers. “Artist Amy Sherald Has Canceled Her Upcoming Show at the Smithsonian.” NPR, 24 July 2025, www.npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-s1-5479078/artist-amy-sherald-has-canceled-her-upcoming-show-at-the-smithsonian. “Asked to Flag ‘Negative’ National Park Content, Visitors Gave Their Own 2 Cents Instead.” NPR, 26 June 2025, www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5444323. Associated Press. “Sergeant, 23, Is First Woman Awarded Silver Star since World War II.” 16 June 2005. “Before Lady Liberty, There Was Lady Columbia, America’s First National Mascot.” Smithsonian Magazine, www.smithsonianmag.com. Ben-Shalom, Miriam. 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Brofer, Jennifer. “Marines Conduct ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal Training.” DVIDS, 1st Marine Logistics Group, 29 Apr. 2011, www.dvidshub.net/video/114054/marines-conduct-dont-ask-dont-tell-repeal-training. Carter, Ash. “Remarks on Ending the Ban on Transgender Service in the U.S. Military.” 30 June 2016. U.S. Department of Defense, www.defense.gov. “CHOOSE: Drag Queens or Fatties for US Navy Recruitment.” YouTube, uploaded by BlazeTV, www.youtube.com/shorts/VES0RUssfO8. 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Statement on the National Portrait Gallery. July 2025. Qtd. in LGBTQ Nation, www.lgbtqnation.com. “Harpy Daniels Doubles Down on Navy Drag Queen Backlash: ‘We’re Winning.’” YouTube, uploaded by Dave Shadow, www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMPqAopFDAc. “Harpy Daniels: Navy’s Drag Queen Digital Ambassador.” YouTube, uploaded by TheDC Shorts, www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK0Y3_S3UtA. “Hegseth Orders Rare Meeting of Top Military Leaders.” YouTube, uploaded by ABC News, Sept. 2025, www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY4bxfi5paQ. Hegseth, Pete. In the Arena: Good Citizens, a Great Republic, and How One Speech Can Reinvigorate America. Threshold Editions, 2016. ---. “Remarks to General and Flag Officers.” Marine Corps Base Quantico, 30 Sept. 2025. U.S. Department of War, www.war.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/4318689/. Transcript. ---. The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free. 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Reprinted by the Hudson Institute, www.hudson.org. ---. “Preserving the Warrior Ethos.” Foreign Podicy, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, 7 Jan. 2022, www.fdd.org. Podcast. “Meet the Navy’s Drag Queen, ‘Harpy Daniels.’” YouTube, uploaded by PIX11 News, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eio7p2adUkA. “Military Colonel: ‘We Have an Obligation’ to Correct Anti-Trans Rhetoric That Is ‘Factually Untrue.’” YouTube, uploaded by MS NOW, www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EB9BAQDjlk. “National Security Act of 1947.” Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, National Archives and Records Administration, www.trumanlibrary.gov. “National Security Act of 1947.” Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/national-security-act. “Navy’s Drag Queen Recruit: Joshua Kelley’s Inspiring Journey.” YouTube, uploaded by Can We Talk? 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As female soldiers get elevated from object to equal, they become both the army’s greatest PR asset, and greatest PR liability.  — A production of BRINK Website: thisispropaganda.show Instagram: instagram.com/thisispropagandashow Email: [email protected] — CREDITS  Written, Produced, and Hosted by Malcolm Critcher and Joshua Belhumeur  Co-Producer: Reed Chandler __  Some dialogue and quotations have been condensed, paraphrased, or reconstructed based on contemporaneous accounts, interviews, and other source material. All archival clips from film and television used under fair use, for educational purposes only. REFERENCES Radio Address by Mrs. Bush, Crawford, TX, Nov. 17, 2001 — official transcript: georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011117.html. Quote matches near-verbatim (official text: “world-wide,” “al-Qaida”). Per CNN (Nov. 17, 2001), the first time a First Lady delivered the president's weekly radio address in its entirety: edition.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/11/17/bush.radio/ June 2025: Israel's “Twelve-Day War”; US joined June 21–22, 2025 (Operation Midnight Hammer — B-2 strikes on Fordow, Natanz, Isfahan); ceasefire June 24, 2025. A far larger US-Israeli war began Feb. 28, 2026; its ceasefire collapsed in early July 2026 and strikes resumed mid-July. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_strikes_on_Iranian_nuclear_sites and britannica.com/event/2026-Iran-war “Glittering generalities” is one of the seven propaganda devices catalogued by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis, “How to Detect Propaganda,” Propaganda Analysis 1:2 (1937). Taliban captured Kabul Sept. 1996 (movement emerged near Kandahar, 1994). Via Operation Cyclone (1979–92) the CIA channeled ~$3B through Pakistan's ISI, which favored hardline Islamist factions; many Taliban emerged from that war's networks and madrassas. The US never directly funded the Taliban itself. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone; Craner testimony, Oct. 31, 2001, avalon.law.yale.edu/sept11/craner_001.asp Human Rights Watch, “Afghanistan: Humanity Denied — Systematic Violations of Women's Rights,” Oct. 2001: hrw.org/reports/2001/afghan3/afgwrd1001.pdf (employment/education bans, burqa and mahram rules, public beatings, floggings, executions — incl. the filmed 1999 execution of Zarmeena). “Report on the Taliban's War Against Women,” State Dept. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, released Nov. 17, 2001, same day as the radio address: 2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/c4804.htm; CNN called it a coordinated “second volley”: edition.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/11/17/bush.radio/ Gallup: 88% approved of US military action (Oct. 2001); 80% favored ground troops (Oct. 19–21, 2001); support ~8 in 10 through early 2002. news.gallup.com/poll/5029/eight-americans-support-ground-war-afghanistan.aspx Clinton: “New Hope for Afghanistan's Women,” Time, Nov. 24, 2001 (time.com/archive/6913613/). Albright: CNN interview, Sept. 28, 2001. Steinem: see comment — she called for a bombing halt (CNN chat, Dec. 27, 2001: edition.cnn.com/2001/COMMUNITY/12/27/steinem.cnna/). “A Coalition of Hope,” Ms., Spring 2002 (Feminist Majority Foundation). Critique: Elizabeth Miller, “An Open Letter to the Editors of Ms. Magazine,” Apr. 2002, rawa.org/tours/elizabeth_miller_letter.htm; “bombs to the feminist toolkit” phrasing: Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism (2021), excerpted at thenation.com/article/world/white-feminists-wanted-to-invade/ Krista Hunt, “‘Embedded Feminism' and the War on Terror,” in Hunt & Rygiel (eds.), (En)Gendering the War on Terror (Ashgate, 2006), pp. 51–71. RAWA's Oct. 11, 2001 statement opposed the invasion from day one (“this invasion will shed the blood of numerous women, men, children…”; the Taliban “should be overthrown by the uprising of Afghan nation”): rawa.org/us-strikes.htm Army Center for Army Lessons Learned, Commander's Guide to Female Engagement Teams (2011) (“third gender”); Marine Corps Gazette (2011) (“there to help versus there to fight”); both quoted in Jennifer Greenburg, “Women's secret war,” The Conversation, 2023: theconversation.com/womens-secret-war-the-inside-story-of-how-the-us-military-sent-female-soldiers-on-covert-combat-missions-to-afghanistan-205669. Term origin: expat aid-worker usage, e.g. Azarbaijani-Moghaddam, CMI Working Paper 2014:1. Jennifer Greenburg, At War with Women: Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War (Cornell UP, 2023) — CST members describe public affairs officers photographing them at medical clinics and orphanages while day-to-day work was intelligence collection. Human Rights Watch, “Today We Shall All Die: Afghanistan's Strongmen and the Legacy of Impunity” (2015); HRW, “How US-Funded Abuses Led to Failure in Afghanistan” (July 2021). Direct-death counts: Brown University Costs of War Project ~46,319 Afghan civilians through mid-2021 (costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human); AP tally 47,245. Indirect deaths (disease, hunger, infrastructure collapse) add substantially more. UN Women, “Afghanistan: Ten facts about the world's most severe women's rights crisis,” Aug. 2025; OHCHR, Mar. 2026 (“continues to deteriorate dramatically”); UN experts characterize the system as “gender apartheid.” 1994 Direct Ground Combat Definition and Assignment Rule (Aspin memo) barred assignment, not temporary attachment — the loophole used for FET/CST placement with SOF/Ranger units. GAO NSIAD-99-7. Rescinded Jan. 24, 2013 (Panetta/Dempsey). Roche et al., “The Unseen Patriot,” Journal of Veterans Studies 7:1 (2021): 71.4% of surveyed CST members met Combat Action Badge criteria but were denied recognition, blocking combat-linked VA care and compensation. journal-veterans-studies.org/articles/10.21061/jvs.v7i1.285 Sgt. Greville Clarke, Fort Hood: arrested Oct. 2022 after attacking five women; convicted 2025; details of the Diaz assault and the Army's failure to warn per The Intercept, ibid. Diaz quote (“I abused alcohol in an attempt to forget what happened to me”) ibid. Vanessa Guillén, murdered at Fort Hood 2020; the independent review found “total disregard and disrespect for female soldiers.” Ana Basaldua Ruiz, 20, died by suicide Mar. 2023 after reporting sexual harassment; Army inquiry cited a “persistently toxic culture permissive of harassment.” Per The Intercept, ibid. The Intercept, “...Army Women, Death, Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault,” June 30, 2026: theintercept.com/2026/06/30/army-women-death-domestic-violence-sexual-assault/. Analysis of DoD data, 2011–Aug. 2025: 41 Army women dead by homicide (over half killed by fellow service members or veterans; 70%+ of victims knew their killer intimately); 128 by suicide; homicide/suicide rates double civilian women's; active-duty Army women at higher homicide risk than male soldiers (inverse of the national pattern); per capita death rate up 35% (2021–24) to 21 per 100,000; nearly 1 in 4 servicewomen experienced sexual assault (2001–2023). ‍Defense Secretary Hegseth eliminated the 75-year-old Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (Sept. 2025), ordered a review of women in combat roles (Jan.), and blocked women officers' promotions. Per The Intercept, ibid. VA National Center for PTSD, “Military Sexual Trauma”: about 1 in 3 women (and 1 in 50 men) screened in VA health care report MST. ptsd.va.gov/professional/treat/type/sexual_trauma_military.asp DoD JAMRS polling presented to DACOWITS, reported Dec. 2024: 60% of young women have not considered military service (multiple reasons); sexual assault/harassment is women's top distinctive safety concern — 53% of women vs. 11% of men. military.com/daily-news/2024/12/10/female-teens-dont-see-themselves-us-military-heres-why-according-pentagon-surveys.html FOIA'd Air Force documents (Spy Culture, “The US Military's Captain Marvel Documents”): cooperation began summer 2017 — Air Force-sponsored tour for the directors during script development; Brig. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt consulted; Brie Larson visited Nellis AFB Jan. 2018 and flew in an F-16. spyculture.com/the-us-militarys-captain-marvel-documents/ Thunderbirds flyover over Hollywood for the world premiere, Mar. 4, 2019: cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/watch-usaf-thunderbirds-mark-movie-premiere-with-hollywood-flyover/; official USAF b-roll on DVIDS (public domain): dvidshub.net/video/663436 USAF Recruiting Service ad “Origin Story” (agency GSD&M), ran before Captain Marvel screenings and on youth-focused TV, timed to the film and International Women's Day: thedrum.com/news/2019/03/01/us-air-force-promotes-women-pilots-superheroes-recruitment-campaign; taskandpurpose.com/news/captain-marvel-air-force-recruiting/ Military.com, Jan. 5, 2020: women were 31.2% of Air Force Academy applicants for the Class of 2023 — the highest share in five years (vs. 28.6–30.5% prior); the Academy said there was “not… an out of the ordinary increase in female applicants.” military.com/daily-news/2020/01/05/captain-marvel-effect-air-force-academy-sees-most-female-applicants-5-years.html Top Gun released May 1986 — 33 years before Captain Marvel (2019). The oft-cited “500% jump in naval aviator applications” is unsourced and rated false (AAP FactCheck); Navy enlistments rose ~8.3% in FY1986 and fell the next year. aap.com.au/factcheck/maverick-top-gun-stat-turns-out-to-be-a-real-goose/; news.usni.org/2022/05/27/ FY2025: every service met its goal 3–4 months early. clearancejobs.com (July 8, 2025); defenseone.com (Oct. 2024). Pentagon data reported 2025: female enlistments across all branches rose 16,725 → 23,985 (+~43%) in FY2025 year-to-date vs. the same point in FY2024. foxnews.com/politics/female-recruits-surge-across-all-service-branches Military.com, “Does the Military Need Social Media Influencers?,” Nov. 26, 2024: “In 2023, veteran-related content on TikTok amassed over 15 billion views.” Hashtag/view aggregate quoted by an interviewee — attribute rather than state as audited fact. Greenburg, Jennifer. At War with Women: M

From flappers to factory workers, and suffrajitsu to cold war kitchens, we track how the 20th century woman was imagined time and again to meet the needs of a nation. — A production of BRINK Website: thisispropaganda.show Instagram: instagram.com/thisispropagandashow Email: [email protected] — CREDITS  Written, Produced, and Hosted by Malcolm Critcher and Joshua Belhumeur  Co-Producer: Reed Chandler __  Some dialogue and quotations have been condensed, paraphrased, or reconstructed based on contemporaneous accounts, interviews, and other source material. All archival clips from film and television used under fair use, for educational purposes only. No AI this time. Enjoy my Russian accent.  REFERENCES Marks, Susan. Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America's First Lady of Food. Atria Books, 2005. Purvis, June. Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography. Routledge, 2002. Lance, Katherine S. “The Suffragette Movement in Great Britain.” M.A. thesis, University of North Texas, 1976. Imperial War Museums. “Emmeline Pankhurst’s ‘Women’s Great Procession for the Right to Serve,’ 7 July 1915.” IWM Volunteer London Blog, 9 Mar. 2021. Gullace, Nicoletta F. “White Feathers and Wounded Men: Female Patriotism and the Memory of the Great War.” The Journal of British Studies, vol. 36, no. 2, 1997, pp. 178–206. Mayhall, Laura E. Nym. The Militant Suffrage Movement: Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, 1860–1930. Oxford University Press, 2003. Singh, Neha Reka. “The Flapper Girl’s Impact on Consumerism.” B.A. thesis, University of Toronto, 2020. Singh, Neha Reka. “The Flapper in Advertisements – A Symbol of Women’s Liberation or Infantilisation?” Gender, Culture and Text (University of Glasgow), 29 Apr. 2021. Honey, Maureen. Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II. University of Missouri Press, 1999. “Women and Work After World War II.” American Experience, PBS, www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tupperware-work. United States, Women’s Bureau. Women Workers in Ten War Production Areas and Their Postwar Employment Plans. U.S. Department of Labor, 1946. “Women Workers Protest the Loss of Jobs at Ford Motor Co.” Center for the Study of Working Class Life, Brown University (via WWII Women Project), n.d. Mulcahy, William. Quoted in “Rosie the Riveter Delivered Miracles During WWII.” USO Stories, USO, 21 May 2012. Nixon, Sean. Hard Sell: Advertising, Affluence and Transatlantic Relations, c.1951–69. Manchester University Press, 2013. May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. Basic Books, 1988. Hixson, Walter L. Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945–1961. St. Martin’s Press, 1997. United States, Central Intelligence Agency. Transcript of the “Kitchen Debate” Between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev, 24 July 1959. CIA Reading Room, 1959. Castillo, Greg. “Domesticating the Cold War: Household Consumption as Propaganda in Marshall Plan Germany.” Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 40, no. 2, 2005, pp. 261–288. Dooley, Brian. “Were Women Better Off in the US or USSR During the Cold War?” Time, 23 July 2019. Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. W. W. Norton, 1963. 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