Hegseth’s Pentagon Purge
The Powers That Be: DailyJulia Ioffe joins Peter to dig into the power struggle reshaping the Pentagon, where Pete Hegseth’s promotion of Christopher LaNeve to Army Chief of Staff is raising serious questions. Julia explains how LaNeve’s swift ascent from obscurity—and the purge of popular generals that made room for it—has fueled growing suspicions that he’s become Hegseth’s instrument of choice in Hegesth’s campaign to consolidate control over the military.
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