Most Overlooked Defense Stories Of 2020!
The most overlooked story of 2020, including by this publication, is that having a president largely divorced from making military decisions worked pretty well for the US military.
By Colin Clark on December 23, 2020 at 6:00 AM
WASHINGTON: The most overlooked story of 2020, including by this publication, is that having a president, Donald Trump, largely divorced from making military decisions worked pretty well for the US military.
What do I mean? President Trump loved to point to “my generals†as if this marked some special genius on his part (many senators might not agree about to whom they belong) but he appeared to exercise a very light touch on the vast majority of important military decisions, especially budgetary ones. He rarely weighed in on operational and military policy decisions; when he did he often reversed them within days and the Pentagon often ignored him. (One good example — threatening NATO allies really didn’t make much difference to how they or we actually behaved. Every NATO member had promised to increase military spending long before Trump was elected).
https://breakingdefense.com/2020/12/most-overlooked-defense-stories-of-2020/
