Several hearings today for national security nominees. Three former SecDefs and several other former DOD officials support Austin.
Defense News notes Mattis’ failure to understand civilian politics.
Two reports about extremists in the US military — from NYT and Military.com.
AP details the collapse of police command structure at the Capitol.
WOTR has good think piece about military traditionalists and futurists.
Trump’s “1776 Commission” reports that progressivism is like fascism. Thought you’d like to know.
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