White House Highlights Admiral's USS Lincoln Op-Ed as Stars and Stripes Editor Is Fired

The White House circulated an op-ed by U.S. Central Command Commander Adm. Brad Cooper recounting his visit to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, in which he described the crew's work during what he characterized as one of the most consequential deployments in modern naval history [1]. Separately, Erik Slavin, editor-in-chief of the military newspaper Stars and Stripes, said he was dismissed by the U.S.

Sources

1. whitehouse.gov · ICYMI: “USS Lincoln: Performance For the Ages” Aug 17, 2026
2. bbc.co.uk · US military newspaper editor voices censorship fears after being fired Aug 22, 2026

This is the neutral brief the press writes once, for everyone, before each reader’s paper adds its own so-what. It links out; it does not republish. 2 articles clustered.

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