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The U.S. military has now turned its wrath inward on Fox News host Tucker Carlson.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new secretary of defense relayed his \u201crevulsion\u201d for Carlson\u2019s questioning the role of women in combat\u2014a position that had been the military\u2019s centuries-long orthodoxy until about seven years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pentagon spokesman John Kirby even compared Carlson to the Communist Chinese military: \u201cWhat we absolutely won\u2019t do is take personnel advice from a talk show host, or the Chinese military.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The U.S. military has now turned its wrath inward on Fox News host Tucker Carlson.\u00a0 The new secretary of defense relayed his \u201crevulsion\u201d for Carlson\u2019s questioning the role of women in combat\u2014a position that had been the military\u2019s centuries-long orthodoxy until about seven years ago. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby even compared Carlson to the Communist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3nn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12989,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/who-is-our-militarys-enemy-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":12981,"position":0},"title":"Who Is Our Military\u2019s Enemy?","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The U.S. military has now turned its wrath inward on Fox News host Tucker Carlson.\u00a0 The new secretary of defense relayed his \u201crevulsion\u201d for Carlson\u2019s questioning the role of women in combat\u2014a position that had been the military\u2019s centuries-long orthodoxy until about seven years\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13654,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/has-the-military-lost-middle-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":12981,"position":1},"title":"Has the Military Lost Middle America","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 1, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Private Papers Traditionalist and conservative America once was the U.S. military\u2019s greatest defender.\u00a0\u00a0 Bipartisan conservatives in Congress ensured generous Pentagon budgets. 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