‘Lethality’ Used to Be a Pentagon Buzzword. Now It’s a Worldview.
It’s blunt instead of vague, brash instead of evasive, bold instead of cautious. And yet the word obfuscates as much as old defense jargon. [Source]
Publication Date:Origin: nytimes.com
Category: United States Defense and Military Forces
Topics: instead, It’s, jargon, defense, obfuscates, cautious, evasive, brash, vague, blunt, Worldview, Buzzword, Pentagon, ‘Lethality’
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/magazine/lethality-us-military-pete-hegseth.html