Obama would not back any naval officer engaged in a serious confrontation with the Chinese and that has to color any decisions made in theatre.
Let's face it...after the Catalina Island incident, they'd have to nuke us repeatedly before Obama would admit to "tension."
I believe that every single officer in the military is going to eventually have to make decisions involving choices between doing the right thing and sacrificing his career.
I wonder which is the lesser of two evils, a gay acting secretary of the AF or a ball bashing woman. Goodby A-10
I also don’t know how much more humiliation our military will take. They have to be about to explode.