{"id":78110,"date":"2026-08-31T11:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/pentagon-plays-down-report-of-hegseth-regularly-overruling-military-advice\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T11:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:54:49","slug":"pentagon-plays-down-report-of-hegseth-regularly-overruling-military-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/pentagon-plays-down-report-of-hegseth-regularly-overruling-military-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon plays down report of Hegseth regularly overruling military advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Response seeks to discredit Washington Post story that four generals and admirals advised against prolonging Iran war<\/p>\n<p>Pete Hegseth regularly receives formal objections from senior commanders and proceeds anyway, the Pentagon\u2019s top spokesman has said, as he tried to discredit a Washington Post report that four generals and admirals had advised against prolonging the war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, we demand candid military advice,\u201d Sean Parnell <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SeanParnellASW\/status\/2094103560384389592\">wrote on X<\/a>, formerly Twitter. \u201cNon-concurs are standard. The Secretary sees them constantly. That\u2019s how you run a real military.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/31\/pentagon-report-pete-hegseth\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Response seeks to discredit Washington Post story that four generals and admirals advised against prolonging Iran war Pete Hegseth regularly receives formal objections from senior commanders and proceeds anyway, the Pentagon\u2019s top spokesman has said, as he tried to discredit a Washington Post report that four generals and admirals had advised against prolonging the war &#8230; <a title=\"Pentagon plays down report of Hegseth regularly overruling military advice\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/pentagon-plays-down-report-of-hegseth-regularly-overruling-military-advice\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pentagon plays down report of Hegseth regularly overruling military advice\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}