TOI correspondent from Washington : MAGA supporters found the speeches – “Pattonesque” – redolent of the stirring remarks by the famed US General consecrated in Hollywood movies. Liberals and peaceniks on the other hand heard echoes of demagoguery from 1940s Germany still available in black and white documentaries. Some 800 American generals, admirals, and commanding officers summoned from all over the world to a military base in Quantico outside Washington DC for an unprecedented briefing listened to the country’s commander-in-chief and its “Secretary of War” articulate a refined doctrine of “peace through strength" under which US will always be prepared for war with “violence, precision and ferocity” and will dispense with pacifism, wokeness, and diversity. In remarks that many A

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