To the editor: Taking our nation right into a conflict requires the knowledgeable enter of generals or others with precious expertise in such issues so as to see a profitable consequence (“The Strait of Hormuz shows us the biggest flaw in America’s Iran war strategy,” March 23). However President Trump and Protection (or, uh, Warfare?) Secretary Pete Hegseth have fired or demoted decades of fight expertise and know-how.
Their shakeup focused a number of high-ranking officers with deep fight and strategic expertise. They embody Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. CQ Brown Jr. (who has important fight command expertise), Military Lt. Gen. Joe McGee (director for technique, plans and coverage on the Joint Workers) and Military Vice Chief of Workers Gen. James Mingus.
And simply look the place the president’s, er, superior strategic information obtained us. “Foreseeable” is correct.
Robert Archerd, Rancho Palos Verdes
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To the editor: Contributing author Jon Duffy is clear-eyed when he emphasizes, “The US retains utilizing drive as if army energy excuses the tougher work of technique. It doesn’t.”
Certainly, as Niccolò Machiavelli wrote in “The Prince,” “The lion can not defend himself from traps, and the fox can not defend himself from wolves. One should subsequently be a fox to acknowledge traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.” By relying solely on army would possibly, Trump has stumbled right into a foreseeable lure as Iran leverages its management of the Strait of Hormuz, exposing an absence of strategic considering from the White Home.
Till the U.S. learns to enrich its lion-like energy with fox-like shrewdness, we’ll proceed to be ensnared in geopolitical traps at nice nationwide price.
T. Michael Spencer, Washington
