A member of the Pentagon’s Defense Business Board quit in protest on Monday after Trump loyalists Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie were appointed to the board last week.
“The abrupt termination of more than half of the (fill in with literally any and every dept name) and their replacement with political partisans has now put the nation’s safety and security at risk,”
Throughout my life, I’ve been on the left side of the Support the Troops vs. Dismantle the Military-industrial Complex conversation. Imagine my surprise at finding myself a staunch supporter of our Military, when compared to Trump’s GOP.
Well, I suppose it could be worse. They could be on the advisory board of the Covid vaccine distribution.
I have no reason to believe either of these political hacks knows the first thing about defense, but then Trump is the guy who didn’t know the three legs of the nuclear triad, and he’s only the President.
Psychology will get some great analyses…but Mob/Crowd/Cult/Collective Behavior WILL become a fast-growing area of study…especially a sub area in which Politics/Law merges with it.