The Pentagon previously sent a memo ordering the 159-year-old newspaper for American troops to begin preparations to “dissolve.”
) written by Col. Paul Haverstick Jr., the director of Defense Media Activity, the Pentagon instructed the paper to draft a plan that “dissolves the Stars and Stripes,” offering a “specific timeline for vacating government owner/leased space worldwide.”
The editorially independent newspaper is delivered daily to front-line troops, often limited by a lack of internet access, and had a circulation of 7 million as of 2019. Last week, a bi-partisan group of 15 senators wrote to the Pentagon asking to reinstate the $15.
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