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Bloomberg This Weekend has breaking news that US forces struck three Iranian crude carriers after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched ballistic missiles toward two US Navy warships, according to US Central Command. The renewed fighting around the Strait of Hormuz adds pressure to shipping and energy markets as President Donald Trump continues to downplay the conflict as something short of war. (Source: Bloomberg)
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On Bloomberg This Weekend Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper calls the Pentagon’s polygraph testing of roughly 50 Joint Staff members unprecedented in scale as officials investigate leaks about US munitions stocks. Esper tells hosts Christina Ruffini and Jeff Mason that he is less concerned about immediate combat readiness than the institutional impact of leadership turnover and its potential effect on the military’s tradition of an apolitical officer corps. (Source: Bloomberg)
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