After the Pentagon received marching orders from President Trump to develop a strategy to fight ISIS, you would expect some small public disclosure of unclassified highlights of the plan to gain the confidence of the American people.  But you would be wrong. Instead, Bloomberg reports that retired flag officers, including the former commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, Admiral Sam J. Locklear, are urging SecDef Mattis and SecState Tillerson to continue U.S. support for combating global climate change. The ex-officers are the latest to call for the U.S. to uphold its environmental commitments as President Donald Trump's senior advisers were preparing to meet Tuesday to debate whether to exit the Paris accord.  Tillerson and Mattis are among those pushing the president to stick with the agreement, brokered in 2015 by almost 200 nations. Given that Europe doesn't even abide by the rules of the Paris accord according to Energy Secretary...(Read Full Post)