Secret Wars

Michael Glennon fears that there is potential for a war between the Trump Administration and the national security bureaucracy [“Security Breach,” Revision, June]. He makes sweeping accusations about the dark motives of the so-called deep state — a secretive network that is conspiring to “maintain the illusion that national security [is] controlled by our constitutionally established democratic institutions.” Unfortunately for Glennon, the facts contradict his alarmist narrative.

Glennon’s assertions about the size and influence of the national security apparatus are puzzlingly hostile. He claims that “millions” of bureaucrats operate with a yearly budget of a “trillion” dollars — gross overestimates,…