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Julia Ioffe joins Peter to discuss the power struggle at the Pentagon involving Pete Hegseth and Christopher LaNeve's controversial promotion.
Julia Ioffe joins Peter to dig into the power struggle reshaping the Pentagon, where Pete Hegseth’s promotion of Christopher LaNeve to Army Chief of Staff is raising serious questions. Julia explains how LaNeve’s swift ascent from obscurity—and the purge of popular generals that made room for it—has fueled growing suspicions that he’s become Hegseth’s instrument of choice in Hegseth’s instrument of choice in his campaign to consolidate control over the military. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Host: Peter
Guest: Julia Ioffe
Topics covered
- Pentagon power struggle
- military control
- leadership changes
- general purge
- Hegseth's influence
Keywords
- Pentagon
- Hegseth
- LaNeve
- military
- generals
- power struggle
- promotion
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Organizations: Pentagon, Army
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