Pete Hegseth’s Warped Vision for the Military

National Security Pete Hegseth’s Warped Vision for the Military Actual war heroes are discarded because they threaten the secretary’s fragile ego. Mike Nelson / June 29, 2026 Audio Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Text Size Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Threads Email 0 Open and scroll to the comments section In June 2014, Iraq’s second-largest city fell to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in a disastrous rout of the Iraqi army, condemning the residents of Mosul to three years of brutal occupation. By the fall of that year, the black banners of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s ISIS fighters were a mere eight miles from Baghdad after having marched through most of Anbar province.

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