Source: Los Angeles Times
by Jon Duffy
“Earlier this month, the Pentagon quietly extended the National Guard’s ‘D.C. Safe and Beautiful’ mission in Washington through Jan. 20, 2029. That date corresponds to no publicly identified security condition, crime objective or military task. It is simply the day President Trump’s term officially ends. The extension raises obvious questions: How will we know when this mission has been accomplished? If January 2029 is its only publicly announced endpoint, what tells the military its job is finished?
Defense Department missions are supposed to begin with defined objectives and include clear conditions for ending them.” (07/28/26)