Pentagon "new plans" are insane.

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11. Heather Cox Richardson noted that Politico is one of the main places the regime "tests"

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... the acceptability of a "position" it hasn't yet actually taken via leak.

She also named Axios as a place she's noticed is similarly used.

If there is a powerful negative reaction to the thing floated, they drop it.

So it's up to us to make sure electeds, armed services committee members, letters to editors, social media feeds, etc., hear what we think about this bit of insanity.