I mentioned earlier the issue of senior military people speaking. Frankly, we just don't let them do it, unlike some of our allies. In the United States, every four-star is brought before committees, and they're all mandated to speak their own personal views to those committees. In our context, they're mandated to speak the government line when they show up at a committee, whatever the government line of the day is. We could do a lot to improve education by opening that up and allowing more dialogue and frank military advice from senior military folks about the state of affairs globally.
On February 27th, 2018. See this statement in context.