When Faith Walks Into the Briefing Room
Religious Framing, Pete Hegseth, and the Quiet Erosion of Military Neutrality
On the morning after the first strikes on Iran, most Americans woke up the way we always do to big news now: half-formed push alerts, a few seconds of cable news over coffee, a flood of contradictory posts on social media.
Operation Epic Fury began in the early hours of Saturday, February 28, 2026, as a joint U.S.–Israeli campaign that killed Iran’s Supr…



