And strategic communications is far too vital to be entrusted to diplomats and public affairs professionals especially because the net effects of failed strategies and policies can kill the people in uniform.
But it should not be from the vantage point of chairman of the relevant appropriations subcommittee, a position of responsibility that - as the outgoing chair of the House Veterans Affairs Committee recently learned the hard way - is not entrusted by the leadership to those with their own agenda.
The Director of the Department of Education, Culture, and Sport Affairs and the director of the Task Force Antillean Youth whom are entrusted with the daily leadership assist the minister.
Later Mr Berezhkov was entrusted with the editorship of Soviet publications, including New Times, a foreign affairs weekly, and in the 1970s and 1980s worked in the Soviet embassy in Washington.