Hegseth’s move of naming it after a different soldier named Bragg helps circumvent the law banning Confederate names of U.S. military assets.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday restored the original name of a Georgia military installation, although Fort Benning now honors another combat hero instead of a Confederate general.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s decision to tacitly glorify a treasonous slave-owning Confederate general says as much about his allegiance to our nation’s ideals today as it does the ...