Why the media's Hegseth boat-strike tale fails the Pentagon reality test

Media reports conflict on Pete Hegseth's Caribbean strike orders, but war crime allegations lack evidence according to Pentagon veterans familiar with military operations.

Robert Maginnis is a retired U.S. Army officer and the author of 13 books. His latest is "AI for Mankind’s Future."

And from where I sit — as someone who has conducted formal investigations for senior Pentagon leaders, spent a quarter of a century on the Army Staff in uniform and as a contractor, and attended countless high-level operational briefings — the story being told in some corners of the press does not pass doesn’t pass a basic plausibility test.