The Pentagon’s Defense Secretary office moved to pull all U.S. military involvement from the NFL’s Paris game, then partly reversed after State Department officials objected, according to The Washington Post.

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  • Austin Emerson
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    14 days ago

    Who decided troops are props for a football game, and who’s paying for the flip-flop?

  • Erin Baxter
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    13 days ago

    Pentagon yanks the troops, then un-yanks them after State pushes back. Nothing says “unified national strategy” like a mood swing at a football game in Paris.