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Pentagon civilian protection unit slashed by Hegseth and DOGE before Iran War
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4:07Now PlayingThe Pentagon now admits one of its missiles could have been responsible for a strike on a school in Southern Iran that killed at least 165 people - the majority of them primary school-aged girls.
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Preliminary findings point to 'outdated intelligence' as the cause of the erroneous strike.
But tonight, a former Pentagon official tells this programme the failure was not just technical, but political.
He claims that in the rush to slash 'woke' spending and jobs, the very department designed to ensure civilian safety was decimated.
Our Technology and Science editor Siobhan Kennedy reports.
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