An Air Force general wants to ‘robust’ Guam. What the hell does that mean?

[rebewranger]

An Air Force general wants to ‘robust’ Guam. What the hell does that mean?
Jeff Schogol - Yesterday 5:40 PM
 
The U.S. military tends to contort the English language the same way it disfigured Eugene Stoner’s design for the AR-15 to create the highly flawed M16.
 
The word “behoove,” for example, seems only to exist so that noncommissioned officers can chew out junior enlisted servicemembers for their various failings. Likewise, nary has a Supreme Court ruling been written in which one of the justices has “piggybacked” off another’s opinion. And no one has ever asked his or her date if they want to come inside to spend the “period of darkness.”
 
Now an Air Force general officer has shown the military has found a new and creative way to warp the word “robust,” which in the civilian world is most often used as an adjective to describe something or someone as “strong” or “capable.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/an-air-force-general-wants-to-robust-guam-what-the-hell-does-that-mean/ar-AAXxsgC?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=5967f86a94634c96b7c0257d837e899b

[Smokin Joe]

Maybe so it won't tip over and sink if everyone moves to one side? 

[Wingnut]

Maybe so it won't tip over and sink if everyone moves to one side? 

Hank Johnson!!

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Hank Johnson!!

[sneakypete]

It means he wants to improve the defenses.

Something "robust" is stronger than typical items of the same type.

I have only had social contact with a couple of General Officers,but I can tell you there is no such critter as one who thinks neither his defensive or offensive capabilities can't be improved.

It's just the nature of  the beast.

BTW,this does NOT mean he lacks confidence in the ability of he and his men to defend their positions. It just means that to THESE people,nothing is EVER as good as it could be. It is the nature of their occupation to think like that.