During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Pentagon and the CIA were exerting
enormous pressure on Kennedy to bomb and invade Cuba. The pressure from
the national-security establishment grew
so large that the president’s brother even expressed concerns over the
possibility that the national-security establishment would remove
Kennedy from power and take control of the federal government. Kennedy
resisted the pressure and said no. Unfortunately, faced with a similar
situation, President Trump has buckled to the national-security
establishment.
