The Alabama senator’s military promotions blockade is already a crisis—on a level beyond “readiness” or “security.”
The current political impasse over military nominations will result in not just an operational crisis but a cultural one.
Since February, Alabama’s Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville has held the process of hiring and promoting military personnel hostage to protest the Pentagon’s decision to pay for out-of-state travel for service members seeking abortions. As a result, for 21 days now, the United States Marine Corps has been without a commandant, the title of the top military officer in that branch.
It’s no wonder that on Thursday, President Joe Biden attacked Tuberville’s “extreme political agenda” in a speech at thethat emphasized the blockade’s risk to America’s “immense national security challenges.” But the obvious truth is the Marine Corps appears to be doing just fine without a top officer. Anyone with government experience understands that major agencies, including military branches, are often run by senior officials below the “face” of the organization: chiefs of staff who do the behind-the-scenes work while the secretary or senator or bureau chief smiles for the cameras.
coded language for anyone who knows the understatement typical among top military brass for “total disaster.” He went on to note the “ripple effect” of the anomaly all the way down the line for the entire Corps.He’s not kidding. The old axiom “the fish rots from the head” is more true in the military than in many other institutions. Militaries are famously hierarchical.
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