Incredibly, Duranty won a Pulitzer for his articles from the Soviet Union. . Throughout the Cold War, the Times’ man at the Pentagon, Drew Middleton, accepted the threat assessments of the U.S. military, and thereby helped several administrations make their case for increased military..…
This was even though Obama's own Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey said that Israel went to extraordinary lengths to limit civilian casualties in Gaza and that Pentagon had sent team to see what lessons could be learned from the operation... ..…
The surprise announcement resulted in the resignation of Secretary of Defense James Mattis, US anti-IS Brett McGurk and Pentagon Chief of staff Rear Admiral Kevin Sweeney. Notably, the US troops have been operating Syria as part of coalition for about five years without the permission of..…