Trump Stacks the Pentagon and Intel Agencies With Loyalists. To What End?
So far, there is no evidence the appointees harbor a secret agenda or arrived with an action plan. But their sudden appearance amounts to a purge of the Pentagon’s top civilian hierarchy without recent precedent.
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| American troops in Afghanistan in 2019. The president has been frustrated by what he sees as the military moving too slowly to fulfill his promise that all troops will be home by Christmas.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times |
