To me, the “dereliction” in McMaster’s book was the chiefs’ failure to speak honestly even to McNamara and LBJ. They were too focused on protecting their budgets, jobs and service priorities. The “dereliction” was a failure to do their job. It wasn’t necessarily a call to resign.
Did you include a little speaker that plays “Satisfaction?”
Thanks Chris!
“The chairman is not just a military adviser,” said retired Rear Adm. John F. Kirby. “He’s the personification of the U.S. military, the human representative of everyone who wears the uniform and their families.”
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Trump’s Threats of War Crimes Intensify Pressure on General Caine. My latest with countdown clock ticking... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...
“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!?”
— Sen. Blutarski
Over the objections of top Army leaders Hegseth strikes 2 Black and 2 female officers from one-star promotion list
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“For now, there is but one certainty—that the hopes and lives of Iranians don’t matter. Not to Israel, not to the U.S., and certainly not to their own regime, gunning them down in the street.”
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“In President Trump’s America, there may be only two genders, but our military adventures can identify however they please.” @philklay.bsky.social
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“Those who drafted the First Amendment believed that the nation’s security requires a free press and an informed people and that such security is endangered by governmental suppression of political speech. That principle has preserved the nation’s security for almost 250 years.”
How Christian faith and overwhelming force come together in Hegseth's Pentagon.
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I was just disinvited from the Air War College where I’d been asked to lecture on my book, which is a history of U.S. civil-military relations.
“There’s always someone who thinks that if only we were crueler, if only we’d killed another million Vietnamese, then we would have won this war.” - @philklay.bsky.social
@gregjaffe.bsky.social on Hegseth then and now via @nytimes.com 🎁 link www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...
Erin Cunningham O @erinmcunningham…... As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East. Paul Musgrave @professormusg... • 5h I have to say the Post chose a hell of a moment to lay off all their foreign correspondents 3:39 PM • Mar 2, 2026 ® Everybody can reply
Just the dumbest newsroom decision you could make, unless you were trying to undermine your own newsroom
👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country?
What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished?
What if I told you that I found them?
A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):
“.. They couldn’t break me by arresting me,” Ms. Levy Armstrong said, “so they doctored an image to show the world a false iteration of that time to make me look weak.”
@nytimes.com
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It takes all of us to make The Washington Post. Every section works together to create this authoritative, entertaining, worldwide news report.
So, Jeff Bezos, #SaveThePost.
I’m enjoying this season! They’re young and feisty. They play hard every night and with joy.
NEW: Trump reality check — China and Russia aren't threatening Greenland. US and European officials say there's no intelligence on any such dangers. Sen. Mark Warner says the only immediate threat to Greenland is Trump asserting claims to it. Gift link to my story: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
though officials are reluctant to say it publicly, they are quietly hoping for a few days of brutal cold.
NEW: Trump pardoned a porta-potty magnate named Arie Eric De Jong III who was sentenced to 5 months in federal prison for illegally disposing of sludge in cities across southern California.
3 More Lawmakers in Video Say Federal Prosecutors Are Investigating Them www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
From the latest email to the staff from @washingtonpost.com executive editor Matt Murray:
The reporter in question — Hannah Natanson — has done important, incredibly valuable work.
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Sen. Slotkin: “I’ve studied this kind of political authoritarianism in other countries my entire professional life. I just can’t believe I am talking about it in my own country.”
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The latest escalation:
Senator Says Prosecutors Are Investigating Her After Video About Illegal Orders www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
