accept that president biden is the dually elected president of the united states. it's not impossible to think it's going to affect the armed forces. we draw our women and men with u.s. societies, so it's not unlikely some of them would be infected. finally it outlines some of the mitigating opportunities that are available to america, to the united states, to the federal government and to the armed forces to mitigate the challenge posed by a highly partisan divided america. >> we are going to go into the mitigation efforts in a minute. let's talk more about what you talk about in your op-ed. you and your fellow generals talk about chaos in the