How America Surrendered Its Weapons in the Information War

The organization is in such chaos that this month, it failed an audit because USAGM was unable to provide proper documentation of its finances. (Annabelle Gordon for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Donald Trump called on the Iranian people to rise up and ‘take over your government.’ But can they even hear him?
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Over the weekend, Donald Trump declared that “the United States military is undertaking a massive and ongoing operation” against the Iranian regime. He assured the American public that the United States was armed and ready for battle. “I built and rebuilt our military in my first administration,” Trump said. “There is no military on Earth even close to its power, strength, or sophistication.”
But there’s a second war to be fought against Iran and America’s chief adversaries, one experts fear the U.S. is ill-equipped to win: the information war.
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