# Pentagon's anti-woke influencer praised dictators and attacked women

> A retired Army colonel with a Pentagon contract has a history of extremist posts praising murderous dictators and calling liberal women a pestilence.
- Title: Pentagon's anti-woke influencer praised dictators and…
- Summary: A retired Army colonel with a Pentagon contract has a history of extremist posts praising murderous dictators and calling liberal women a pestilence. Kurt…
- Keywords: kurt schlichter, pentagon, pete hegseth, defense department, extremism, anti-woke ideology, military leadership, Pentagon's, anti-woke, influencer, praised, dictators
- Source: WIRED — https://wired.com/story/a-pentagon-influencer-called-liberal-women-a-pestilence-who-will-end-western-civilization
- Author: David Gilbert
- Published: 2026-09-29T10:15:00+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: kurt schlichter, pentagon, pete hegseth, defense department, extremism, anti-woke ideology, military leadership
## Retired colonel hired by Pentagon
Kurt Schlichter, a retired Army colonel with over six hundred twenty thousand followers on X, was given a government email address and worked for the Pentagon's undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness.
## Task force rooting out woke ideology
Schlichter confirmed he was a civilian government employee working as part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military's war colleges, according to reporting from The Washington Post.
## Demanded authoritarian crackdown on liberals
In an August two thousand twenty-one thread on X, Schlichter wrote: We must, by any means necessary, force them to be like us. No quarter. No compromise. He advocated banning masks, unions, critical race theory and leftist media.

> We must, by any means necessary, force them to be like us. No quarter. No compromise.
## Proposed voting restrictions based on family status
Schlichter suggested people without children, military service or property should not vote. He wrote: Penalize barren, non-familial lifestyles through taxes and disqualification from political participation. Posts in the thread were shared ten thousand times combined.

> Penalize barren, non-familial lifestyles through taxes and disqualification from political participation.
## Praised murderous dictators repeatedly
Schlichter expressed appreciation for Chile's Augusto Pinochet and Spain's Francisco Franco. In April two thousand twenty-four he wrote Pinochet was too soft. In December two thousand twenty-five he called Franco a Spanish patriot.

> Pinochet was too soft.
## Called liberal women a pestilence
In a July two thousand twenty-six Townhall article, Schlichter wrote that liberal women could end Western civilization. He called them self-righteous crones, a pestilence and a plague whose antics would inevitably lead to the fall of civilization.

> These self-righteous crones are a pestilence, a plague upon Western society.
## Key takeaway

Kurt Schlichter, a retired Army colonel and social media influencer working with the Pentagon to promote Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's anti-woke agenda, has posted extremist content praising dictators and attacking women and minorities.