Trump's military blueprint raises questions about Pentagon's future direction
Ex-presidentʼs plans for military reform include major shifts in domestic deployment and defense systems. Changes target everything from border security to personnel policies and missile-defense infrastructure
Donald Trumpʼs return-to-office plans show big changes for military use: his ideas focus on home-soil deployment for border control and city safety (despite the fact that federal troops cant do police work under the posse comitatus act‚ but the insurrection act might give some room to work)
The ex-presidents defense ideas include a nation-wide missile shield system: similar to israels iron dome but experts say its way too costly and wont help much against north-korean or russian long-range threats. The whole project seems like a hard-to-achieve goal; experts point to technical limits
His work-force changes target the pentagon too - bringing back schedule-f rules that would take job safety from many policy-making workers. Trump wants to watch what he calls “out-of-line staff members“ which makes some people worry about political control of government jobs
The military culture shift plans are clear-cut:
- No more diversity-equity-inclusion training
- Bringing back rules that stop transgender people from serving
- Going back to confederate names for bases
We need a task force looking at these woke generals
