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Restrict official military social media to recruitment

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 4, p. 104. Written by Christopher Miller.

Restrict official military social media to recruitment

The document says “should”Who acts: DODHow: internal managementp. 104 in the PDF
What the document says

“Restrict the use of social media solely for purposes of recruitment”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 104

The chapter says official military social media should be used only for recruiting, and that service personnel who use an official command channel to engage with civilian critics on social media should be disciplined.

What the document actually says

“Restrict the use of social media solely for purposes of recruitment”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 104
That sentence, in plain words

Use these accounts only to find new recruits. Nothing else.

What this is about

The armed forces run their own social media pages. The book says they should only use them to find recruits. It says staff who argue with critics there should be punished.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Executive Order 14149 bars federal officers and employees from acting, or spending federal resources, in a way that would unconstitutionally abridge an American citizen's speech. It restricts what the government may do to other people's speech, not what the services may say on their own accounts. Nothing among the candidates limits official military social media to recruiting or sets discipline for personnel who argue with critics from a command account. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 104.
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    “Restrict official military social media to recruitment,” Project 2025, chapter 4, p. 104. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch04-restrict-military-social-media/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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