Exactly.
Trump and Mattis executing exactly the right strategy to reverse the Obamaization of the military.
The American military is a huge ship and it take a long time steer that ship back on course.
By focusing on optimizing military lethalness, Mattis has paved the way to begin reigning in the the rouge officer corps promoted under Obama
Mattis is preparing the battlefield for confrontation while letting the radical’s insanity erode public support for their positions.
It is now two years into the Trump Administration and soon the “up or out” DOD promotion policy and gradual but steady reassignments of the radical activists burrowed into the system will remove them from their positions of power to facilitate the assignment of rational warriors in the proper positions to reverse the insane policies of the Obama era.
Given the ongoing coup attempt against Trump and the opposition and outright hatred to Trump in much of the Republican establishment, it would be suicide at this time for Trump to fight this battle with the entrenched Obama partisans fighting a bitter rear guard action against any Trump reforms.
Next year, after riffing, retirement and reassigning of the Obama rear guard, the resolution of the ongoing coup attempt by Obama dead enders and rouge members of the Republican Party , increased public support for Trumps policies in general, and with a hopefully more supportive Senate and House both Mattis and Trump will have a much better freedom to assert their control over the military.
You must see something the rest of us are missing. I have not seen Mattis lift a finger to roll back any of these destructive policies and even tried to countermand Trump’s order barring cross dressers. He is an Obama General who should have been first on Jan 21, 2017 along with every other Obama appointee in the Pentagon and Executive branch. That didn’t happen and now they are after Trump constantly.