"On Sunday [11 August 2024], U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that he had ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group to accelerate its deployment to the Middle East, leaving the Indo-Pacific empty of carriers." -- ForeignPolicy.com
So . . . Lloyd Austin is now the commander-in-chief of United States armed forces? Does the buck start and stop with him? If it's not him, then who is giving the orders, pulling the strings, pressing the buttons? -- Joe? Jill? Barack? Kamala?
