>>508354777 (OP)makes sense, last time we had Donald Rumsfeld as Def Sec this time we got Pete Hegseth.
Trump is an RE guy and reality TV star, GHW Bush youngest fighter pilot for USA in WW2 and later head of CIA.
JD Vance's career was being picked, by the noted homosexual Peter Thiele, to write a autobio whining about his dumb White trash family, which is said to be actually pretty good book (ghost writer?). Then being made a fake Venture Capitialist by that same Fag billionaire with no results, except being installed as Senator somewhere.
Dick Cheney resigned from CEO and Chairman of Halliburton, the world's premier oil service firm with major global operations including of course across the Middle East, to became Bush II VPOTUS.
prior to that Cheney was Bush 1's Def Sec during Gulf I.