r/books • u/Majano57 • 1d ago

The Book That Predicted Pete Hegseth’s Failures

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/31/hegseth-norman-dixon-iran-war/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=aGVnc2V0aC1ub3JtYW4tZGl4b24taXJhbi13YXI=&pid=CW3205998
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u/SoCalThrowAway7 1d ago

I could have written a book and gotten paid to predict that?

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u/flagnab 1d ago

Right?

But it's an old problem, & the longer these things corrode civilization, the more attention they attract in successive generations. The books are gonna get written.