Is it good news that “the CEOs of four of the nation’s five biggest defense contractors—Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and the defense arm of Boeing—are now women”?
On Wednesday, Politico published an article called “How women took over the military-industrial complex.” Though “military-industrial complex” always feels like a pejorative term, David Brown’s piece strikes a positive note; it’s written in that delicately faux-neutral fashion that presumes the institutions in question are swell, and that ladies in them sweller still. And yeah, straight white men dominating every other sexuality, gender, race, and creed isn’t the answer to any good question. But the Hillary Clinton–ready logic of Wow, a WOMAN now runs the National Nuclear Security Administration feels, at best, like some serious wheel-spinning.
And yet here we have women solemnly giving their lean-in tips on being in charge of a world-threatening nuclear arsenal, writes Antiwar.com Contributing Editor Lucy Steigerwald for Reason.
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