Disappearing Defense Secretaries should be a relic of Soviet Russia, not American present politics

When the news broke Saturday on Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization and apparent failure to notify other key officials, my initial reaction was to say, “What on earth!”

However, mistakes happen, and sometimes they are “doozies.” As the Washington Post put it, quoting senior leaders: “the handling of the incident showed ‘unbelievably bad judgment’ on Austin’s part.”