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This sort of reasoning is fallacious when the person in question is not an expert.

So is there any consensus as to whether this General has any expertise with respect to the subject at hand?

I would tend to think General McInerny has some knowledge in this area, and that he would not want to sully his reputation by being so dogmatic about the topic when he need not be.

My experience is that generals, in general, tend to be pretty thoughtful in their utterances, and don't typically run off at the mouth about things they don't know, and consequently they often speak with supreme confidence about that which they DO understand. One usually does not become a general otherwise. But I'm generalizing.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I would expect that we would begin to see numerous other military "experts" chiming in, either backing or undermining the General's assertions.

So I ask: What other military authorities have opined on this subject, and what is their level of agreement?

Maybe I'm wrong, but I would expect that we would begin to see numerous other military "experts" chiming in, either backing or undermining the General's assertions.

I am a military veteran, but not a military expert.

I am not a professional astronomer, but I do spend quite of bit of time looking up, since I was old enough to walk... In fact, I spend a lot of time obtaining digital images of astronomical objects of all types.

This includes daytime planetary imaging, solar imaging and night time deep space imaging of nebula, galaxies, binary systems, etc, etc.

I even built a small observatory to preform imaging of objects in the sky. The observatory can be completely computer controlled remotely from the home.

This is what I have imaged from my humble backyard observatory.

Inside, at the business end of the telescope.

M27 Planentary Nebula - 1360 light years away

M42 Orion is a stellar nursery where over 700 stars at various stages are being formed within the central core of the nebula.

Veil Nebula is an old supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus. It is the remains of cataclysmic explosion of star that exploded between 5,000 and 8,000 years ago. This nebula is about 1,860 light-years distance.

My opinion, for what it's worth, after spending many years examining, observing and imagining objects in the sky, is the event that occurred off the coast of California recently, was a missile launch.

((JMO))