The Department of Defensiveness

A brief history of this Pentagon’s sordid attempts to control the narrative. Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. The current leadership in the Pentagon is quite fond of saying it is “the most transparent Department of Defense in history.” Now, bald-faced misrepresentations by government officials are never healthy in a functioning republic, but one almost has to admire the chutzpah of blatantly lying about being honest. Mike Nelson is a retired Army Special Forces officer and a member of the Atlantic Council’s Counterterrorism Project. He is formerly of the Institute for the Study of War and the National Security Institute. You can find him on x.com at @mikenelson586. More We Think You’d Like