she’s referring to the national security act of 1947, which ostensibly prohibits former members of the military from holding the office of SecDef unless they have been out of the service for a number of years — 7, I believe.
The first meeting between Russian MOD Shoigu and Mattis should be REALLY interesting.
Shoigu isn’t “military” but he’s a “rough Siberian” outdoorsman, who personally formed the “Rescuer Corps”(Think FEMA plus the Coast Guard, now the Ministry of Emergency Situations). He’s a VERY comepetent Administrator, it seems.
The hawk, and the contact for going after ISIS, is going to be Gerasimov, who is both competent and VERY slippery.