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But in early June he blamed several of the inaccuracies on his attempts to translate "Pentagonese" for voters or on inattention by his campaign to the fine points of his military career.
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But in early June he blamed several of the inaccuracies on his attempts to translate "Pentagonese" for voters or on inattention by his campaign to the fine points of his military career.
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But in early June he blamed several of the inaccuracies on his attempts to translate "Pentagonese" for voters or on inattention by his campaign to the fine points of his military career.
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It was a little like John Kerry's anti-Vietnam protest at the Capitol in 1971, utilizing the most stilted Pentagonese jargon to describe demonstrations "athwart hostile infiltration" of the Congress, and so forth.
Conrad Black: My Manifesto For the Occupy Movement Conrad Black 2011
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Meanwhile, as the panel points out in the report, the Pentagon already has multiple activities dealing with the terrorist threat, though in Pentagonese this is described as "pursuing efforts to develop innovative, non-material, and multi-disciplinary methodologies and strategies for disrupting irregular and asymmetric threats and threat enablers."
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Now not even six months into his presidency President Obama is putting Americans into “Af-Pak”nice Pentagonese that which is more like where Americans were in Vietnam circa 1964.
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Pentagonese: Missile defense is cool but if it means less F-22s, it's got to go ... fighters are much more sexy and great for getting girls.
Wired Top Stories Nathan Hodge 2009
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The overuse of acronyms in the military is bad enough, and has the effect of requiring civilians to get a Rosetta Stone translation program just to keep up with debates until they develop a facility with Pentagonese.
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Translated from Pentagonese, that means a hemispheric drug raid.
Risky Business 2008
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So WMD -- Pentagonese for weapons of mass destruction -- rather than Osama Bin Laden will be the focus of the "what next" section of the President's State of the Union address.
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