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America’s secretary of war meanwhile lectures America’s allies
The US ‘secretary of war’ earns his keep as the loyalty-hire par excellence, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
America’s armed forces are supremely capable and roiled by infighting
A gathering of generals turns into a surreal, and worrying, political show
The Trump administration evidently seeks to transform the US military into a partisan tool of the president’s regime
