Don't expect military to welcome Pete Hegseth with open arms: national security expert
Raw StoryThe jury is still out on whether Fox News weekend host Pete Hegseth will be approved to head the Department of Defense, but a professor emeritus of national-security affairs at the U.S. Speaking to MSNBC on Monday, The Atlantic's Tom Nichols said Hegseth "is not going to be as welcome in the military as people think it might be." "Pete Hegseth, whatever his intentions, even if they are good intentions and not all of them I think are, but even if he wanted to, he doesn't have the experience or the ability to do that kind of a job, and I think there would be some concern about that." With a more experienced appointee, Nichols said that it would send a message that "what matters most in every government department, including justice and defense and the intelligence community worry about the most, is that loyalty matters more than competence, loyalty to Donald Trump matters more than competence, and it matters more than loyalty to the constitution.
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