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342 | Trump's Last Defense Secretary on Cutting the Pentagon Budget, Base Closures, Forever War Accountability, and New Threats with Christopher C. Miller

The Realignment

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Military and Strategic Advice - Eric Shinseki

Eric Shinseki was army chief of staff during the Iraq war. He told President Bush and Congress that there were not enough troops for the Iraq invasion. Donald Rumsfeld didn't go with it because "he didn't have a good feel for the nature of war," he says.

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