My latest in the Los Angeles Times on Pete Hegseth’s meddling with military promotions. It undermines trust in leadership, puts every military leader under a cloud, and weakens the force Americans rely on to defend the country. PDF in the first reply.
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"Hello daddy. I hope you are OK. Tell everyone from my class hello."
here's some of what I saw and learned this week when I visited the Dilley ICE family detention center in Texas.
A visible pattern of removing women and minority officers from promotion lists sends a message to his military.
What exactly is our strategy in Cuba? The administration has increased pressure with little discussion about what outcome this pressure is intended to produce — or why ordinary Cubans must bear the cost.
My latest in the Los Angeles Times. PDF in the first reply.
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The USS Arizona is a tomb. That should have been enough.
My latest in the LA Times looks at Kash Patel’s “V.I.P. Snorkel” there. The deeper disgrace was the Navy’s decision to accommodate it.
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‘The Navy should be able to tell the difference between honoring a visitor and dishonoring the dead… It should be able to look at a request like this and understand, instantly, that some things must not be done.’
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The military is not a concierge service for powerful public officials.
For more than 60 years, the U.S. has tried to pressure Cuba’s leadership into breaking. The regime has endured.
I wrote on Monday about Pete Hegseth and Gen. Francis Donovan ramping up lawless boat strikes, which amount to extrajudicial killing. This week there have been 3 more strikes! Truly out of control. Awful that the US military is doing this and the world barely notices. wapo.st/4tOygA5
