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Pete Hegseth under seige as Pentagon plunges into disarray

“[Hegseth’s] lack of experience is a huge demerit,” said Benjamin Friedman, policy director at Defense Priorities, a think-tank that advocates for a less interventionist US foreign policy. “It makes it more likely that he’s just going to struggle with internal management issues, rather than really setting policy and leading the Pentagon.” [. . .]

But Friedman, who said he shared some of Trump’s national security goals, said the “lack of policy direction” emerging from the Pentagon was disturbing.
“Hegseth doesn’t seem to have very many ideas about what he wants to do, other than complain about the media and wokeness,” he said.

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