Opinion: The biggest threat to U.S. national security is a lack of trust in senior military...

David Hackworth talked about this CYA tendency in the military.

Our inability to win in Afghanistan does not bode well for senior military leaders.

Trust and or lack thereof is no less an issue/concern *out of uniform* throughout the military industrial complex (i.e., “everywhere”) as well as life itself. With top, bottom and in between often being wary of one another for reasons right, wrong, real, imagined and otherwise. Hemingway for sure —but— perhaps Jean Shepherd deserves the last word.