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I joined and served a military that I love, that was lethal, that
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was based on meritocracy, that existed for twenty years to try as best it
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could to defeat extremism. And now that very seem military is identifying people like
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me, and I tell that specific story in the book as extremists. So
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political ideologies have captured the top of our pentagon, and that's proliferated throughout the
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institution, and it's made our ranks less accountable. It's lowered the standards.
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They're less prepared, commanders are walking on eggshells, and as a result,
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they're less capable. And so it's not a good story book. And it's
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something that's not just a military, it's the CIA, it's other institutions are
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facing this too. But it's something that can be reversed, and I wanted
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to sound the alarm on it now in the hopes that we can write the Ship