On Thursday, Mark Esper will have served exactly one year as secretary of defense. But the last few months have been the toughest of his tenure as tensions with the White House have spilled out in public.
With just under six months to go until inauguration day, Esper is walking a political tightrope. Defense officials tell CNN he has had to make time to focus on day-to-day crisis management alongside chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley to try and prevent President Donald Trump from making any disastrous decisions that could damage national security or demoralize the military.
"Esper did not address decades of intelligence assessments that have always claimed North Korea could strike with little to no warning, leaving the US no time to beef up forces if they are withdrawn.What Esper isn't saying is revealingThere may be no bigger hint of the strains at play than what Esper is not saying. When he recorded a 10-minute video for troops largely touting his accomplishments and thanking the force he didn't mention the commander in chief once.
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