Everything I’ve read about Esper convinces me he will be a good DecDef. In any case, he will surely be head and shoulders above anybody Obozo put in the office.
He got rid of mandatory Friday “safety briefs” in the Army (some units still do them but they are not required to do so) and cut out a lot of ridiculous mandatory training and paperwork that had nothing whatsoever to do with killing the enemy. He’s cool by me.