Command Post: More Iran Attacks, Oil Problems Worsen, Tanker-for-Tanker Strategy
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Benjamin Parker and Mark Hertling September 9 ∙ Paid 197 8 4 Ben Parker and Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) look back at 9/11, Trump’s bizarre remarks at a commemoration, and the lessons Hertling wishes America had learned over the last 25 years. Then they turn to the escalating Iran war, attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure, Pete Hegseth’s sidelining of Gen. Christopher Donahue, and the Pentagon’s effort to identify and remove transgender service members through their medical records.
THE ADVANTAGE—AND PERHAPS THE BURDEN—of looking back across a quarter century is knowing how little we understood then about how profoundly those few hours would change the country, the military, my family, and millions of other Americans. I wish I could tell that version of m…
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