McMaster to Everyone: We Lack Basic Competence
About your security studies degree...
People who have both friends and enemies on the political left and the political right are, for me at least, some of the most interesting in the public arena.
They are either doing something very right, or doing a lot very wrong - maybe both. What they usually are not are hyper-political random partisan talking point generators.
One of those people is LTG H.R. McMaster, USA (Ret.). At the end of September, he showed up at a conference with a blow torch in one hand and a pair of pliers in the other.
I have a few pull quotes and links to the full video from the 4th Great Power Competition Conference over at USNIBlog.
Sometimes I watch the Think Tech Hawaii YouTube Channel. Lt. Gen. Dan "Fig" Leaf USAF is a contributor. He spoke on AFG in past sessions and this morning I saw his vid on Veterans Day. One of the subjects he brought up was the special exclusiveness of service and being a veteran. One of the points he made is that now as much as 75% of high schoolers and GED holders can't pass basic entrance exams for service. That goes to competence.