
Putin beginning to have excuses made for him: Military expert
Fox News
Retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges lifted the veil on the Kremlin Thursday on "Your World."
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This has been a lesson in strategic leadership. I'm sure he's not hearing everything … In this very top-down centralized command structure, I'm sure there are people who are reluctant to tell him bad news or to offer different opinions. And this is also - you made a reference to all the Russian generals who have been killed - the reason they're so exposed is because of the tradition inside Russian military for very centralized decision-making. … [A]s we would have captains and colonels and senior sergeants making decisions at the front where there was a problem, they have to have a general come forward, and then these guys are talking on cell phones, which is amazing to me, and that's why they're getting killed.

Leavitt lashes out at CNN's Kaitlan Collins in tense exchange on fallen soldiers from Iran operation
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt took aim at CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins and her network during a tense exchange about the fallen soldiers during Operation Epic Fury against Iran.












