Or so it seems to me.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin detailed the arch’s potential security features as part of legal filings that the administration submitted ahead of a hearing on Friday. Both officials said Washington faces “continuously evolving” threats and that Trump’s planned 250-foot-tall arch — positioned by the south end of the Arlington Memorial Bridge — would offer a perch to coordinate officials’ security response, deploy snipers and take other steps to defend the region. [WaPo]
Yep, put your snipers up there where a single FPV drone armed with a fair-size bomb can kill them easily. Have these guys not learned anything from the world leaders in defense, Ukraine?
It’s a sop to a demented, or worse, old man’s vanity.
