'Instant fodder for gossip': Hegseth's Eisenhower globe blunder has Pentagon snickering

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s aides damaged a World War II-era globe linked to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower after they skipped the Pentagon’s history experts and tried to move it into his office themselves, according to a new report.The 30-inch floor globe is one of two in the Pentagon believed to have been used by Eisenhower, and generations of Army leaders have kept them, but people familiar with the matter told the Washington Post that Hegseth was drawn to the globe’s history, which is believed to date to the 1930s, and his staff asked for one to be moved into the secretary’s office.Historical items in the building are normally moved under the supervision of trained curators. Instead, Hegseth’s staff sent its own team, and the movers lost control of the globe and dropped it. The globe then crashed onto its base, and the fragile shell was punctured near Antarctica, leaving a...