{"id":23180,"date":"2026-05-03T10:12:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=23180"},"modified":"2026-05-03T10:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:12:26","slug":"this-is-just-disarray-the-ongoing-disaster-that-is-defense-war-secretary-pete-hegseth-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/03\/this-is-just-disarray-the-ongoing-disaster-that-is-defense-war-secretary-pete-hegseth-intensifies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is just disarray\u2019: the ongoing disaster that is <strike>Defense<\/strike> War Secretary Pete Hegseth intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He is &#8220;increasingly isolated&#8221; as the situation becomes even more complex.<\/p>\n<p>Guardian: \u2018This is just disarray\u2019: alarm inside Pentagon after Hegseth staff purges &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/03\/pentagon-pete-hegseth-us-military\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Independent: Pete Hegseth \u2018emboldened\u2019 by firing of top military officials as he moves to \u2018consolidate control\u2019 &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/05\/02\/hegseth-trump-job-security\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Raw Story: &#8216;Unicorn&#8217; ex-Trump official points to &#8216;terrifying&#8217; classified info endangering us all &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/hegseth-iran-2676845090\/?utm_source=superhead\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>AlterNet: Defense official reveals alarming way US military learned about Trump\u2019s troop withdrawal &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/trump-pentagon-2676844612\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is &#8220;increasingly isolated&#8221; as the situation becomes even more complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23181,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23180\/revisions\/23181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}