Guessing no. My nightmare scenario has him handing us over to his friends.

Love to all the people who dedicated their lives' work to defending us and now need defending from our own govt. This weakens us.

Toilet on missile defense with absolutely no results.
As I write this, I suspect that musk has some big ideas about how to steal more money.

Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-Based_Midcourse_Defense

Aegis ballistic missile defense-equipped SM-3 Block II-A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-161_Standard_Missile_3

Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_Defense

The sheer scope of the system would cost tens of trillions of dollars.

Of course maybe only protecting the confederacy is the plan.

Sort of hunger games style.

Yeah it can work but at what cost at that scale...which begs can it work at that scale?

...it's more about creating uncertainty in a enemy's mind about their ability to service targets effectively, making them less likely to try it in the first place.

We knew that within 50 miles of my house growing up that the Russians had at least 7 warheads aimed at us. There were at least 3 likely targets (GE jet engine plant for example within 5 miles of my house)

So unless it is nearly 100 percent effective it is useless to a foe with resources.

To Hamas, Iran, etc with small missile stockpiles it can make a difference.

To the thousands of Russian warheads it would be a minor inconvenience. Especially since old mango Mussolini will slip where the weaknesses are to foreign agents to prove he knows what is going on.

Russia is estimated to possess roughly 5,977 nuclear warheads, of which 1,588 are actively deployed.

They have to worry about their launch success rate where up to 1/3 of their 306 strategic ICBMs carrying up to 1,185 nuclear warheads may not make it to orbit, so 800+- warheads, then they have to worry about missile accuracy on the never tried polar route over the magnetic North pole making multiple warheads per target necessary, then they have to worry about detonation success rate on aged semi-maintained warheads, add missile defense on top of that making the number of warheads making it to target & detonating even more unknown and the planning becomes a nightmare without enough warheads to guarantee any kind of success at target destruction.

btw I spent the late '70's in Wash DC, target #1



https://armscontrolcenter.org/fact-sheet-russias-nuclear-inventory

Others will be harassed out of the military.

Expect that enlistees will be required to sign a loyalty oath … loyalty to the Rump.

Then they will draft non—whites, poor whites, and wonder why our military now sucks, like Russia’s

In that there is no cohesion, esprit de corps.

And has a very high casualty rate.

The US in contrast has a low casualty rate in combat because it is well trained
and uses brains not braun when it can. And can foster high moral with a diverse group
because they are well trained.

But yes the goal is to model the US after Russia in every aspect of life.

they are watching our democracy circle the drain and they are salivating.

This impacts national security in a huge way.

Who benefits?

It's going to miserable to serve in the military if you even show a liberal bent.

I'd have to dig out my returns ...

Naturally no gays as they are new to it.
No women. I wonder if they will bring back the WACS.
Probably no people of a foreign heritage.

I would guess that one reason could be that while in the service, we lived a rather insulated life -- we didn't have to learn to live and work with women, gays or transexuals. As Yo-Mama reminded me, we did have to take Race Relations classes, as some of the new recruits had never SEEN a black person except on TV!
My point is, after leaving the military, many of us were completely unprepared for civilian life, where we were usually expected to work with the general public -- sometimes even working FOR people who were outside our comfort zone.
I think many of my fellow veterans were unable to make that adjustment. As a result, they became embittered, and blamed the people they couldn't adjust to. So, I am sure that those veterans are applauding these EOs.
And the result will be a less effective military, and an endless supply of embittered veterans.

Shows that he has little understanding of his own DOD. We literally already have a whole DOD agency called Missile Defense Agency and one of the most advanced missile defense systems in the world.

We should start publishing the names and faces behind the White House directives so that people can distinguish between the Clown Prince of Distraction and the real actors in the Coup. I know that DJT is in synch with 2025, but the real minds behind it who are writing the directives and instructing the agencies, who have organized and directed the specific attacks on Rule of Law and democratic governance, who have hidden away inside the Heritage Foundation and other conservative think tanks, need to take responsibility for their actions and their perfidious goal to promote American ISIS.

There should be no race issues in a foxhole.

Unless we want a military like Russia’s.

The only hope would be for Russia to collapse trying to keep up.
Or do they decide to launch first?

The 1970s weren't exactly the good old days for the Army (I came in in 1980) but we did get better than we were.