Military leaders have raised serious concerns about the Trump administration's forthcoming defense strategy, exposing a divide between the Pentagon's political and uniformed leadership as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons top brass to a highly unusual summit in Virginia on Tuesday, according to eight current and former officials.
"It's also an inexcusable strategic risk to concentrate so many leaders in the operational chain of command in the same publicly known time and place, to convey an inane message of little merit."
The US was lucky that nothing terrible happened during this idiotic convention. Our adversaries had mercy on us.
AI estimates this boondoggle cost the American taxpayer $6m.
BTW: Generals, admirals, SGMs, and CPOS are human! In their limited off-time, they enjoy watching playing golf or tennis or watching football and baseball, like other Americans: www.sportphotogallery.com
They also like being with their families: api.army.mil
I don't think these flag officers enjoyed losing their weekend time coming to Virginia from EUCOM, AFRICOM, CENTCOM Forward, and PACOM to listen to a drunkard's drivel.
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