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GOP explodes into 'extraordinary feud' over 'virtually unknown' Trump appointee
The GOP’s Foreign-Policy Civil War Is Really a Fight Over Empire ManagementNot a Feud, a Power StruggleThe reporting centers on Elbridge Colby, a “virtually unknown” undersecretary of defense for policy with real Pentagon experience and real leverage. That description matters because this is not a squabble over personality. It is a fight over who gets to steer the machinery of American force: troop deployments, nuclear deterrence, alliance pressure, and the terms of Trump’s “America First” line.The Source of the DamageThe key decision described here was the removal of an Army brigade that had…
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