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Trump's purge of defense agencies comes at a vulnerable time for US national security

  • Written by Arie Perliger, Director of Security Studies and Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell
imageMarines at Camp Post, Afghanistan, Sept. 11, 2020, on the 19th anniversary of the terror attacks that began the U.S. war there. Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images

President Donald Trump’s recent firing of Defense Secretary Mark Esper and subsequent resignations from the department of four more top civilian officials – either in protest or...

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