August 11, 2026

The American Conservative Morning Briefing · Aug 11, 2026 · 4m

Good morning! Today is Tuesday, August 11th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's push to end tenure and rewrite curricula at America's war colleges draws cautious praise from reformers, who tell Kelley Beaucar Vlahos the deeper rot—ticket-punching sabbaticals, 95 percent graduation rates, and a culture rewarding conformity over judgment—will survive his crusade against wokeness. Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the U.S.-backed fifteen-point Gaza plan linking Hamas disarmament to Israeli withdrawal, telling his cabinet that no Palestinian…