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Trump and His Generals

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Trump and His Generals

The Cost of Chaos

by Peter Bergen

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Format
Hardcover
Length
400 pages
Published
December 10, 2019
Publisher
Penguin Press
ISBN-13
978-0525522416
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On Political Wire 3 posts

  • Jun 5, 2020
    Trump Loved ‘His Generals’ Until He Got To Know Them

    Just Security: "'We train our boys to be killing machines,' President Trump declared on Twitter in October 2019. He meant it as a compliment—and, as Peter Bergen shows in his powerful new book, Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos, Trump’s sense of military…

  • Dec 10, 2019
    Trump Called for Evacuation of Seoul

    "President Trump called for the population of Seoul to be moved during an Oval Office meeting when tensions between the US and North Korea were at their height, according to a new book about the president’s relations with the US military," The Guardian reports.

  • Sep 12, 2019
    Trump and His Generals

    Coming soon: Trump and his Generals: The Cost of Chaos by Peter Bergen.

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