With the ongoing Israel-Hamas war raging in the Middle East threatening to spread, the Ukraine-Russia conflict still in full swing, North Korea continuing to saber rattle and launch missiles into the waters off the Korean peninsula, and China threatening to invade Taiwan, it’s more than a little concerning to find out that the nation’s secretary of defense went missing for several days and nobody seemed to notice.
Turns out he was in the hospital recovering from cancer treatments, but nobody in the nation’s most important defense office thought to tell Congress or the president.
UPDATE: Congress Not Told SecDef Austin Was in the ICU and His Deputy on Vacation for the Last Week
SecDef is an enormously important job, after all; their website will tell you so:
Secretary of Defense
The secretary of defense oversees the Defense Department and acts as the principal defense policymaker and…
