GEOPOLITICS | Esper Warns Pentagon Polygraph Probe May Hurt Officer Corps

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper called the Pentagon’s polygraph testing of roughly 50 Joint Staff members unprecedented in scale, according to Bloomberg. He told hosts Christina Ruffini and Jeff Mason that he is less worried about immediate combat readiness than the institutional impact of leadership turnover and its possible effect on the military’s tradition of an apolitical officer corps as officials investigate leaks about US munitions stocks.