Hegseth shuts the Office of Net Assessment for no good reason.

but Bulganin the policeman-politician-executive rose to Minister of the Armed Forces, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and finally a full member of the Politburo. Medals jangling, he reviews Red ...

Marshall was early to perceive that the Soviet Union was far weaker than understood, and he spotted the percolating threat from China while the U.S. was still focused on fighting in the Middle East.