tut, I don't do you a favour by agreeing with you. My sentiments are of a minority here but of a majority on the evidence of your popular vote and enormous, unprecedented public blowback today.
What you say of the "tail"---which makes everything run--- is at the heart of our perilous times. The USA is comprised of more than middle-aged white men, understandably frustrated as they are. Government isn't a business, and can't be run like one, not a single part of it, particularly the military.
The president and commander-in-chief is a businessman of no civic or military experience who seems to have forgotten the No. 1 management rule of knowing your customer, the American people, the American culture, their institutions. His rhetoric doesn't even square with those he has chosen to execute it.
Your "tail" reference really struck a chord with me. During the Second World War, the Japanese military knew early on there was no hope of victory when a wing modification from a Zero shot down in the Aleutians turned up in an American fighter in little more than a year. The American tail is its people. It's not all about him.
