I agree with boeingUH60 on the health example > or that the defence ministry should be run by generals. This is a weird exception to the rule. It's a case whe

I agree with boeingUH60 on the health example > or that the defence ministry should be run by generals. This is a weird exception to the rule. It's a case where there is a strong argument to be made for sacrificing competence in exchange for minimizing the risk of a coup by bringing in an outsider without close relationships with the people below him. There is no other department where we have to worry in quite the same way that they might just choose to start ignoring the rule of law, courts, and congress, and that if they do there is nothing that could really be done about it. You don't have to look very far to find examples of militaries seizing power. Meanwhile I'm reasonably confident in saying that no aircraft regulation agency has ever seized power in the history of the planet.