General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did the nation a favor prior to the U.S. election in November 2020 and following the insurrection in January 2021, when he moved to defuse the apparent “war scare” in Beijing and took seriously the possibility that a beleaguered Donald Trump would resort to the use of force to save his presidency.  But his outrageous assessment of China’s test of a hypersonic weapons system as bringing the United States “very close” to a “Sputnik moment” points to the danger of allowing leading general officers to indulge their worst case assessments to the Congress and the American public. More

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