President that of Donald Trump The claim that Washington’s proposed triumphal arch, equipped with drones and an arsenal of weapons, would protect the city has come under heavy fire from munitions and terrorism experts.
The arch is more likely to become a high-value target for terrorists, on the scale of the 1983 Beirut bombing of American soldiers or the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, a former brigadier general told a federal judge in 1995. a court statement Tuesday.
Retired U.S. Army Brig. The general. That of Steven Anderson This argument flips the script on the Department of Defense’s portrayal of the planned Military Arch, a towering 250-foot monument planned in a traffic circle on the edge of Washington’s National Mall, as a necessary part of protecting the capital from terrorism and acts of war.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has previously told the court the ark is a “generational opportunity for national defense”.
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