New Sec Def has zero military experience

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I was actually pleasantly surprised by the nomination of Carter. If you look at his background, Carter has been working rather huge issues inside DoD for a number of years and he's well aware of the need to recapitalize equipment after the years of abuse they've been taking. Kirby has been stuck between a rock and a hard place but he's been defending the policies of the number one asswipe ever involved in US government for the past year so I'm not crying in my beer over his replacement.

I've never held with the view that the C-in-C HAS to have experience in uniform or that experience in uniform was anything magical at the top level. Just look at Lincoln versus McClellan during the early stages of the Civil War. Lincoln had no experience and "Little Mac" was the broadly acclaimed Little Napoleon. Just one problem: Lincoln actually wanted to win and end the war while McClellan kept losing or retreating and getting men killed slowly.

EDIT: Mistakenly referred to Kirby when I meant Carter in the second sentence.