Twot hings in the D O D to stop is the fact that massiveamunts is bein g spent by the DOD that according to audit reorts nobody knows on what the money was spent and for what services payments were made, Iro of the 7 audits done at least $80 billion has gone missing.
The Navuy - where production and maintenance of nuclear powered and armed submarines have collapsed totally since -
- the funding for manufacture of 2 such new sus are proided evey year only one such submarine is completed every 18 months; and
- 20 of h e 60 such submarines are due for maintenance and not operational at all with maintenance bein g down near to zero;
there are some vey real cleanng up of management necessary and Trump hs appointed a top businessman to help Hegseth in cleaning out that management mess,
The fact is that Trump's problem from the start was that the DOD managment was and is in chaos and the target of Trump waa always to have somebody as Scretary of Defense that would act on cleaning up the financial management of he Pentagon and make sure that the DOD caries out political orders given to the army like -
- the disastrous trop withdrawals from Afghanistan;
- withdrawal of US troops from northern Syria after te killing of the ISIS head; and
- the refusal to execute a legal instruction to send the national gueard to protect the Capitol on Janauy 6 2021 - when Milley colluded wit h Pelosi not to send the troops; and
- to deal with regular telephonic conversatins Milley had with the Head of the Chinese Army.
The other political issue is the DEI targets set by the DOD as to recruiting of troops - which caused not meeting in recruitment targets and idiots like your Illinois stating that illegal migrats should be recruited to make up the shortfall and after 3 months trainin be granted US Citizenship, Incidentally the main recruitment areas for USA troops have always been the rural areas and those were speciaifically exluded from such recruiting by the Biden set-up and since the election the DOD was flooded by new recruits from rural USA.
The DOD was militarily, administratiely and politically sick and one of he main targets of the set-up of DOGE will be to clean up that mess as well.
The above all came out of official reports of the Senate, House and audits and the fact is that one wonders why in WW 2 there were 8 top generals and Admirals in charge of the DOD and now there are 32 - most are deskbound in the Pentagon.
The President is in terms of the US Constitution Head of Armed services of h e USA and if he is politiciall y undermined - like happened the case was duing the first Trump presidency - the question is was he appoinment of an outsider with real military experience as a fighting soldier not the answer to the obvious ills of the armed services in the USA.
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Well done Mitch for having the courage to resist this unacceptable choice. To think that this immature man is going to be in charge of the US military capacity is unsettling, especially when you consider the chain of command:
Following the Goldwater–Nichols Act in 1986, the Joint Chiefs of Staff do not have operational command authority, either individually or collectively, as the chain of command goes from the president to the secretary of defense, and from the secretary to the regional combatant commanders.
This could also very well become a problem for Vance who cast the majority vote, something which becomes part of his political resume.