Will Pentagon leak sour US relationship with its allies?
When the leak of classified Pentagon documents came to public light last week, the controversy was as much about who they informed on as what details they contained.
While some of the material in the papers focuses on American geopolitical rivals like Russia, such as the magnitude of its losses in its invasion of Ukraine, other portions of the trove detail information about key U.S. allies like South Korea, Israel, and Ukraine.
It is not the first time U.S. intelligence has been caught spying on its partners. Just a decade ago, a WikiLeaks report showed extensive American hacking of phones in Europe, including that of Angela Merkel, infuriating and embarrassing the German chancellor.
But the leak poses a pair of challenges for U.S. allies. First, it
