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Hegseth's swagger meets a reckoning as Pentagon moves to unwind 'pugnacious' purge: report
Hegseth’s Civilian-Harm Purge Was the PointThe Mask SlipsThe Atlantic reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is now under pressure to restore some of the very civilian-protection roles he cut in his Pentagon purge, after an airstrike killed almost 170 people, most of them children, at a school in southern Iran. That is the whole story in miniature: slash the safeguards, glorify the violence, then act surprised when the body count makes the cuts impossible to ignore.Power Made the DecisionThis was not bureaucratic drift. Hegseth fired or reassigned staff dedicated to avoiding civilian…
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