Pete Hegseth stood at West Point and gave the graduates a story in which the enemy is legible, the mission is clean, and unity means everyone sings the same song.

Lloyd knows that song.

He sang it once. On a school bus in 1979, to a girl named Layla who looked out the window and pretended not to hear.

Chapter 36 of the Tao Te Ching says the soft overcomes the hard.

Lloyd isn't sure he believes that yet.

But he's choosing to, for now.

From the edge of empire and the center of self — this is The Tao of Lloyd.

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