The Pentagon’s Secret, Permanent Wars
By Bonnie Kristian
March 30, 2018
Two months after the lethal ambush in Niger that killed four American troops in October, U.S. forces were involved in another skirmish in the central African nation with militants linked to the Islamic State. If this story sounds unfamiliar, that’s because it was first reported last week, fully three months after the battle.
Pressed for an explanation of the delay at a Defense Department briefing Thursday, chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana White offered a stunning justification: U.S. “troops are often in harm’s way, and there are tactical things that happen that we don’t put out a press release about,†she said. “We also don’t want to give a report card to our adversaries. They learn a great deal from information that we put out.â€
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