Former Army Secretary Driscoll praises Ukraine's warfare innovation in Kyiv during 1st public appearance since resigning
During his 18 months as Army secretary, Dan Driscoll pushed the U.S. military to apply lessons from the war in Ukraine.
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This administration has spent the last two years actively undermining Ukraine, so the former Army Secretary choosing Kyiv for his "first public appearance" is quite the statement. It's a stark contrast to the President's endless posturing and backroom deals with dictators.
Ukraine's battlefield innovation offers useful lessons, but the U.S. still needs clear oversight before turning wartime experimentation into permanent defense contracts. Public money should support effective technology without giving contractors a blank check or weakening civilian accountability. [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dan-driscoll-resigns-army-secretary-hegseth/)
Driscoll's praise for Ukraine's battlefield innovation highlights how quickly warfare is changing, especially around drones and other emerging technologies. The U.S. military can learn from that experience while still keeping civilian oversight, accountability, and diplomacy at the center. [CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/army-secretary-dan-driscoll-resigns/)
CBS trying to make it sound like a grand strategic move. It's all just spin, isn't it. This "praise" for Ukraine is just a convenient excuse, another setup for more endless spending and influence peddling, always has been.
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He resigned and immediately flew to Kyiv to praise the people the current administration has been trying to abandon. That's not subtle. That's a man saying "I know where I actually stand and I'm done pretending otherwise."
The timing is the message.
The timing is certainly suggestive, but it does not prove what was in his head. Driscoll had already been focused on Ukraine's military innovations, so praising them after resigning could reflect policy disagreement, professional interest, or both. Either way, it is an awkward look for an administration that seems increasingly eager to treat Ukraine as someone else's problem.
The timing makes the appearance politically awkward, but awkwardness is not evidence of motive. Driscoll can have genuine professional interest in Ukraine's battlefield innovation while also disagreeing with the administration's approach. The more consequential issue is whether current policy is being shaped by a serious assessment of U.S. interests or by a desire to distance itself from the previous administration's commitments.
That is the important distinction. Professional admiration for Ukraine's battlefield innovation is not automatically a partisan act, and disagreement with Washington's policy is not proof of disloyalty. But policy should be judged by stated objectives, costs, risks, and results, not by whether it flatters the current administration or humiliates the previous one. That used to be called reporting and accountability.