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DEPARTMENT OF WAR

In relation to Pete Hegseth’s egregious attack on the US army’s training methods and cultural ethos, (“ Novice lectures brass on how to win ”, 2/10), he should heed a possible warning from history.

It is worth remembering that another populist Republican, the notorious and for a time powerful Senator Joseph “Joe” McCarthy, famous in the 1950s for his reckless attacks on US State Department officials for being alleged “Communists” met his comeuppance finally when he took on the US army. He came to grief when he moved to pick a fight in relation to l

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