National Security Blunders — When Loyalty Matters More Than Competence

National security isn’t just about weapons, intelligence, and defense budgets. It’s about judgment — the ability to make clear, informed, rational decisions when the stakes are highest.

National Security Blunders — When Loyalty Matters More Than Competence

National security isn’t just about weapons, intelligence, and defense budgets.

It’s about judgment — the ability to make clear, informed, rational decisions when the stakes are highest. Unfortunately, in Trump’s second term, those decisions are being made by people chosen not for their experience, but for their loyalty.

The result?

A government that treats war rooms like campaign rallies and foreign crises like cable news segments. The costs of this loyalty-over-competence culture are already showing — and America is less safe for it.

The “Signalgate” Fiasco

Few moments capture the dysfunction more vividly than the “Signalgate” leak — a debacle that would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous.