Seeing through change of this magnitude—from a military standpoint, let alone a social, economic, and political one—would be exceedingly difficult in normal times. And these are hardly normal times. We need leadership in Washington that can manage the political risks and fallouts associated with nothing less than a generational change of America’s national defense. What Washington is providing instead is a level of political dysfunction that is unique in modern American history and that is bleeding into national defense in a way that makes everything harder. This problem is bigger than Donald
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