In an amicus brief filed on Thursday, a group of former secretaries of the Army and Navy and retired four-star admirals and generals encouraged Judge Perry to express caution about the broader use of the National Guard in domestic operations.
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Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
9 Oct. 2025
At Quantico last week, the president and secretary of war strode into a hall packed with generals and admirals, stars glittering on shoulders.
Many of the marble mausoleums on this 14-acre spot are held by Argentina’s elite, some famous, others infamous—think past presidents, Nobel Prize winners, and military commanders.
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Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
Experts and onlookers have questioned with growing concern whether these strikes are legal, and whether military lawyers that the Pentagon has encouraged commanders to ignore had signed off on the operations.
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