I see it your way. Cheney was ticked at Bush for not pardoning Scooter Libby. Also Cheney’s background was Defense during the Cold War. Was SecDef under Bush I during the Gulf War.
Trump’s strong defense and strong for the vets positions probably play well. As an aside, would not surprise me if there’s been some backdoor talking/advising between Trump and Cheney using Giuliani as the go-between.
I never thought Cheney was a diehard neocon. If you read up on Col. John Boyd, Cheney was one of the people that listened to his theories and in some ways was a Pentagon reformer. Cheney brought Boyd in during the planning of the Gulf War. It might be said that Boyd did more to plan that famous left hook than Schwarzkopf’s team.
There’s a resemblance between the defense mindset of 2016 and the defense mindset of 1976. Just like then, we’ve got to pivot from a counter-insurgency military to a military that can win a major conflict against a nation-state, imo.
Wyoming is number one state in coal production. Cheney may have watch what happened in west Virginia last night and decided in he BASF interest of his daughters campaign for congress he (they) had better get on board
Read the tab regarding coal on Liz’s. Campaign posted above.
Schwarzkopf never impressed me with military intelligence. He called the end run around, a Hail Mary play. A Hail Mary is a desperation tactic. None of our attack movements in GW 1 was out of desperation.