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A condition known as ‘cascading failure’ is something I ran across on occasion in the test world. Such a condition exists in a ‘system of systems’ and occurs when the failure of one or more parts leads to the progressive failure of other parts, which affect even more in turn until the entire thing crashes. It can be a slow-motion train wreak to watch.<\/p>\n
Cascading failure exists in today’s military; it was started in the Obama administration. The last two years have magnified the failures to such an extent the American people now have lost faith in the military. This painful fact was brough to light by recent survey data released by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute.<\/p>\n
Story by Brad Dress<\/strong><\/p>\n About 48 percent of Americans say they have a great deal of trust in the military, slightly up from 45 percent last year.<\/p>\n Confidence in the U.S. military has plummeted in recent years. In 2018, about 70 percent of Americans said they had a great deal of trust in the institution.<\/p>\n The drop to 45 percent last year was the first time only a minority of the American public expressed confidence in the armed forces in the Reagan Foundation\u2019s survey.<\/p>\n Government institutions have seen a steep decline in public trust over the years, most notably the Supreme Court after a conservative majority overturned the constitutional right to abortion in June.<\/p>\n But the Reagan Foundation said \u201cno other public institution\u201d in its surveys has \u201cseen as sharp a decline in public trust\u201d than the military.<\/p>\n A Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote in an opinion piece last month that \u201cmany Americans think the military is no longer an institution that runs on excellence, merit and individual submission to a larger cause.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n