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As I recall there was the usual dictator Trump out to conquer the world, going to start WW3, and out to get us paranoia when the thing was first announced.There is no operational reason for a face-to-face meeting, and classification isn't it. The military has the most secure method of video teleconferencing, up to TOP SECRET/Special Compartmented Information. The is no such thing as military information too classified to be transmitted...a modern war could not be won if that were the case.
Nor is there any realistically imaginable operational reason for commanders from all the theater and support commands to be called into one meeting. There's no war that's going to break out simultaneously everywhere.
This was a dumb, expensive, unnecessary flex of Executive muscle. Even having a classified subtext does not make it anything other than a dumb, expensive, unnecessary flex of Executive muscle.
What it proved to any general who hadn't figured it out yet is that they are being led by small-minded martinets.
And it was more expensive than they'll ever tell you.
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