Maybe you should have the military on your show then if we're hiding behind them.
I can understand the instinct for protectionism. Hell, I've advocated for it. But this group's had a pretty vocal and uniform backlash about about how important honesty with the public is in building trust and how we need to integrate and view ourselves on an even level to the general public.
If we're abandonning that goal then we need to have that talk and call it what it is.