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The commiecrats are adolescent idiots dtiven by emotion. No meaningful interest will be paid ro national security, beyond virtue signalling and pro forma displays will occur on their watch. Expect trash results from the trash people in charge.

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Weren't ADM Locklear and other brass stressing about climate change a decade ago? Are these "commiecrats" too?

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Let us not forget the diversion DoD dollars to build a wall because of the national threat on our southern border. The wall I suppose could be a strategy to confront the Chinese and Russians from invading from the South

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At the the last gasp of Jimmie Carters crew the navy ended their supply mission in the South Pacific. They had some old WWII LST’s with Chief as the CO and crew of boatswains mates and deck seamen. They did these 3 month cruises going from island to island dropping off supplies. They did it for years. When they dropped this mission they lost the face of Americans showing up to give them a little help. That’s when we lost the South Pacific.

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Wait till the old guard hears about Chris Aquilino's stance on climate change 💥.

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Gen. Jim Mattis also warned that climate change is a national security risk in 2017.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-defense-secretary-cites-climate-change-national-security-challenge

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He was also on the board of directors of Theranos

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I'm not sure what Theranos has to do with our national security, but Rupert Murdoch and the DeVos family were also among its investors.

This is Mattis' successor:

https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/03/u-s-secretary-of-defense-and-chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-climate-change-impacts-national-security/amp/

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Likely if under Obama. But I am referring to civilian leadership that sets the agenda.

Under democrats—.mil suffers

Under GOP-.mil suffers less and differently.

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Can we establish a correlation between championing green initiatives (or whatever the Cause of the week is) and promotion to flag rank? That is the insidious symptom of the problem CDR S. discusses, and it has follow-on effects. No general to my knowledge has ever ridden an electric car in a victory parade.

Stalin executed hundreds of general officers in the 1941 purge for failure to focus on their battlefield mission. The rest of the Soviet flag officer corps got the message, and that's when Russia's fortunes changed.

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Ridiculous

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