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Stephen K. Bannon is back at Breitbart and, as promised, hes not pulling any punches.

Trump reverses course, will send more troops to Afghanistan, read the headline on Breitbarts homepage following President Trumps prime time address on U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan. Defends flip-flop in somber speech.

Trumps Monday night speech in which he furthercommitted troops to the nations longest war, but offered few specifics represented another clash between Trump andBannon, who returned to Breitbart on Friday, the same day he wasousted as Trumps chief strategist.

The speech was a disappointment to many who had supported his calls during the campaign to end expensive foreign intervention and nation-building, wrote Breitbarts Pentagon correspondent Kristina Wong in the sites lead article. He acknowledged the frustration that Americans felt after 16 years of war without an end in sight.

Bannon, who left Breitbart just a little over a year ago to join Trumps presidential campaign, is back as its executive chairman and led an editorial meeting Friday evening. Earlier in the day, Breitbart senior editor-at-large Joel B. Pollak tweeted #WARwhen news emerged that Bannon would leave the White House.

But Bannon says he wont be going to war against the president, but on his behalf,he told Bloomberg News.

If theres any confusion out there, let me clear it up: Im leaving the White House and going to war for Trump against his opponents on Capitol Hill, in the media, and in corporate America, Bannon said.

Breitbart started out as a small site bent on exposing the liberal bias in mainstream media. Now, its former executive, Stephen Bannon, is in the White House, and the site has begun targeting political adversaries of the Trump administration. (Erin Patrick O'Connor/The Washington Post)

Despite his assurances, Bannons site was rough on the president Monday night.

A top architect of Trumps nationalist agenda, Bannon has long opposed sending additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, which put him at odds with Trumps national security adviser H.R. McMaster. Instead, he recruited Erik D. Prince, a founder of the private security firm Blackwater Worldwide, to develop proposals to have private contractors continue fighting in Afghanistan instead of U.S. troops,according to the New York Times.Defense SecretaryJim Mattisdeclined to include Bannons strategy in the review of Afghanistan policy he led with McMaster, according to the Times.

In a Breitbartarticle that went up before Trump began his much-anticipated address, Princetold conservative news sitethat heanticipated Trump would roll over and accept the same failed DOD paradigm of the last 16 years.

As interested in diversity as the Pentagon claims to be, they arent interested in diversity of opinions on how to end their longest war, Prince said.

In another article from Breibarts preview coverage, Pollak wrotethat the president risks fumbling into the kind of intractable conflict he specifically promised his voters he would avoid.

But on its Twitter account, Breitbarts reviews of the presidents speech seemeddecidedly less critical.

The American people are weary of war without victory, read one tweet, which linked to Wongs article. Another quoted New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman, who said Trump gave his best speech as POTUS.

Trump who has for years called for a withdrawal from the war said during his speech that although his original instinct was to pull out, decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office.

He provided few specifics about how much the U.S. military commitment would increase.

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Bannon's Breitbart spins Trump's Afghanistan speech as 'flip-flop' - Washington Post