Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics. He is the author of Blown to Hell: America’s Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders (releasing in November 2021)
OPINION — The current clash between Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley and former-President Trump reminds me a bit of the Army’s confrontation back in 1954 with the late-Senator Joseph McCarthy.
The issue 66 years ago, was McCarthy’s claim that the Army was soft on communism. Trump’s argument is that Milley and other senior military officers have adopted “critical race theory,” and thus are “woke,” as Trump claimed during his Wellington, Ohio, rally last Saturday night.