US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday travelled to Normandy to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings.
But after making a speech at the American military cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, he conspicuously skipped afternoon’s main international ceremony marking the anniversary of the Allied landings, which helped herald the end of World War II.
His presence was not missed by some residents of the village hosting the ceremony, Langrune-sur-Mer, who said the US official was not welcome there.
“He has very warlike views and it seems to us that this man does not share our democratic values,” Sylvie Lamy Thepaut, a member of the municipal association Langrune en commun, told BFM TV.
It wasn’t until 1.5 years ago
Simply not true.
Document from 2002 used it 26 times.
https://media.defense.gov/2002/Jun/14/2001712445/-1/-1/1/02-107.pdf
2006
https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/131623/jdam-continues-to-be-warfighters-weapon-of-choice/
31 times
https://www.asafm.army.mil/Portals/72/Documents/BudgetMaterial/20002001/base budget/it/itexh.pdf#%3A~%3Atext=WARFIGHTER+SIMULATION+2000+345+Page+5+DEPARTMENT%2Cevolves+into+the+Army+XXI+(2010)+and
9 times
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-106hrpt644/html/CRPT-106hrpt644.htm#%3A~%3Atext=House+Report+106-644+-+DEPARTMENT+OF+DEFENSE+APPROPRIATIONS+BILL%2C+2001.
I remember hearing the term when I was serving in the late 90s. It’s not a recent thing.
They can’t even invent their own buzzwords.
Thanks for the research