Buttigieg is a Vet and has natl security experience like Biden does. WC males like Buttigieg as well as Biden as we see Warren and Sanders fade, due to being socialistic
But what -is- national security experience? I've seen people claim it is all sorts of things. In this case being a soldier. In other cases it means being some sort of diplomat who worked on terrorism issues. Or being a general who oversaw such and such operations. Or having served on the foreign relations committee in congress. Heck, I've seen someone say having a big business means you have this experience, somehow.
But these diverge quite a bit in terms of their connection to actual foreign policy and national security decision making. Heck, I could claim I have as much or more national security experience than a good number of politicians from my work experience alone. And I'm none of these things I or you have listed.
So again, what exactly does it mean for someone to have actual national security experience? What is the standard, the metric for which one can declare this to be true of someone but not another?
