Global Warning 26: Fighters, Firewalls & Fiascos

First up, Stars and Stripes leadership is out following opposition to Pentagon interference.

On Friday, August 21st, 2026, the Pentagon fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, which is basically the military's newspaper for insubordination.

Now, this newspaper is fraudulent.

funded by the Pentagon, but it is technically an independent organization.

And the fact is that this is kind of a stick in the eye for the paper's independence.

It undermines the newspaper's credibility and its mission to service members

and their

families.

And this comes at a time when the Trump administration in its second term has been very combative toward the media, including sharply curtailing Pentagon access for the press corps that covers the Department of

Defense or

Department of War.

President Trump and other parts of the executive branch in policy and in the courts have grappled with the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, and the New York Times, in addition to using the Federal Communications Commission to target broadcast networks.