The far-left Washington Post just did what the legacy media always does when American troops are in harm’s way and a Republican is running the Pentagon.
They published material from a classified Secretary of Defense Orders Book, the document that maps warships, aircraft, weapons systems, and personnel worldwide, and dressed it up as a hit piece on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
The Washington Post reported Sunday that several senior military leaders warned War Secretary Pete Hegseth that maintaining a force of more than 50,000 American troops in the Middle East is unsustainable and could weaken the United States’ ability to respond to threats elsewhere.
The newspaper acknowledged that its reporting was based on information contained in the classified Aug. 14 edition of the Secretary of Defense Orders Book, or SDOB.
The classified orders book reportedly details the worldwide availability and allocation of American warships, aircraft, weapons systems, and military personnel. It also contains sensitive assessments submitted by America’s senior commanders.
According to the Post, some troops deployed to the Middle East were ordered to remain through September, while others could remain into 2027.
Four senior commanders reportedly submitted formal “non-concurs” expressing disagreement with the proposed extensions:
- Adm. Daryl Caudle, Chief of Naval Operations
- Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, Commander of U.S. European Command
- Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Commander of U.S. Southern Command
- Adm. Samuel Paparo, Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
A “non-concur” does not mean that a commander is refusing to follow an order. It records a commander’s professional disagreement while acknowledging that the order will still be executed.
Washington Post military affairs reporter Dan Lamothe eagerly amplified the purported contents of the classified document.
“Four-stars all non-concurring with prolonging operations against Iran as they are into 2027, per this Washington Post exclusive,” Lamothe wrote, before listing the four commanders.
But DataRepublican, whose real name is Jennica Pounds and who began serving as a Special Government Employee at the Department of War in July, fired back with a brutal response.
DataRepublican argued that the commanders’ assessments were not the most alarming part of the story. The real scandal, she said, was that someone apparently handed information from one of the Pentagon’s most sensitive force-allocation documents to the Washington Post.
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