
The spotlight of war inevitably falls on the personality and priorities of the Secretary of Defense. When President George W. Donald Rumsfeld, the Pentagon chief when Bush launched the Iraq War, came to the briefing room almost every day, sometimes at his own risk. In his memoirs, he reflected on his “inaccurate statements” about weapons of mass destruction sites and “wrongly chosen…”
How Hegseth has transformed the Pentagon’s wartime press operation

