As someone who served on the Pentagon staff under several Secretaries of Defense (Rumsfeld, Gates, and Panetta) and on the staff of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I can attest to what LTG (ret) Hertling has written here about the challenges of the job and vast responsibilities of the SecDef. Our country and its national secur…

Once again, JVL has diagnosed the issue perfectly. The Washington Post’s public capitulation to the ex-president “was about oligarchy, the rule of law, and the failure of the democratic order.”