November 21, 2018
Is Civilian Control of the Military Eroding?
The National Defense Strategy Commission's latest assessment of Trump's military strategy's makes a worrisome observation.
by Michael O'Hanlon Follow @MichaelEOHanlon on Twitter L
This week, the independent and Congressionally-mandated “National Defense Strategy Commission†released its assessment of Trump administration’s military strategy. Led by former Defense and State Department official Eric Edelman, who worked for both parties through a long government career, as well as retired Admiral Gary Roughead, a former chief of naval operations, the report issued a clarion call to action, in light of the global security environment that the authors deemed the most dangerous “in decades.†The other commission members were also all well-known and well-regarded individuals with backgrounds primarily in the defense and intelligence worlds—making it no huge surprise that they called for continued real growth in the U.S. defense budget (even if President Donald Trump, and many incoming House Democrats as well as Tea Party Republicans, may now have different ideas).
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/civilian-control-military-eroding-36507
