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# Hegseth's Staff Damage Eisenhower's Globe While Moving It at the Pentagon
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- Published: 2026-10-22T15:59:56.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-22T16:10:12.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Geography, Heritage, Society

The staff of US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have broken a globe that Dwight Eisenhower used during the Second World War.

Hegseth was taken with the story of the globe, and his staff asked for it to be moved to the Secretary's office. Historic objects in the Pentagon are normally moved under the supervision of specialists. The army unit that keeps the globe was about to consult the historians of the US Army Center of Military History. But at that moment the federal government had partially suspended its work because Congress had not passed a budget, and the historians had been sent on forced unpaid leave. Hegseth's staff did not wait and sent their own team. The movers failed to hold the globe and dropped it onto its wooden stand. The sphere was punctured in the region of Antarctica and, according to the army's official spokesman Christopher Surridge, it came away from the metal mount on which it rotates. The army confirmed that this happened on 3 February during an "attempted move". The partial government shutdown ended the same day. The globe never reached the Secretary's office.

The floor globe, about 76 centimetres in diameter, was made in the 1930s. The Pentagon holds two such globes, and the army calls them "Eisenhower globes". A plaque on the damaged globe states that Eisenhower probably worked with it in 1942, when he served in the Operations and Planning Division of the Army General Staff in Washington.

It is not known whether Hegseth himself ordered the globe to be moved. His office did not respond to journalists' questions, and the Pentagon refused a request to examine and photograph the globe, so the photographs of the damage were obtained from other sources.

For decades the globe was kept by the leaders of the army. The second globe, which stands in the office of the Army Chief of Staff, still bears, according to army officials, pen marks attributed to Eisenhower and General Omar Bradley

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