My first "crush" was oddly enough on Dwight Eisenhower. While he was the president for two terms, he famously warned the nation about the dangerous alliance of the military industrial complex. Now that Trump has named Patrick Shanahan as the Acting Secretary of Defense in a remarkable show of pique, that danger becomes even more evident. Shanahan was never in the military. Now that isn't necessarily a prerequisite for heading up the Defense Department; his primary if not only expertise comes from working at Boeing where he started after getting two masters degrees from MIT--one in engineering and one in business.
So what does he bring to the table that is of value to defending the country? It's got to be that he knows how to make money out of weapons systems.
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