I think if the headline were not "top military nominee" and was instead "the guy who would receive any orders Trump issued to use US nuclear weapons" it would have a bit more punch...https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/us/politics/hyten-assault-joint-chiefs.html …
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An aside: one of Hyten's innovations at STRATCOM was to bring back the old Strategic Air Command motto "Peace is our profession," except he added ellipses at the end of it, to make it even more clear it's really about the threat. https://www.stratcom.mil/Media/Speeches/Article/1600894/us-strategic-command-space-and-missile-defense-symposium-remarks/ …pic.twitter.com/fPbJR3qG8J
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Do you feel that this makes the motto more or less Orwellian, as it's being more up front about the meaning?
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yeah, I've contemplated this. I don't know. It's like if someone put a winky emoji after Arbeit Macht Frei — like they're afraid you won't get it.
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