The Abbreviated Career of Michael Flynn
When Michael Flynn resigned as Donald Trump’s national security advisor after serving in the post for 24 days—the briefest such tenure in history—he left an already chaotic national-security bureaucracy stunned. His resignation also left Washington’s largest special-operations conference without one of its headliners.
Flynn had been slated to speak on Monday evening at the kickoff banquet for the National Defense Industrial Association’s annual special-ops conference in Bethesda, Maryland. The conference and a parallel tradeshow bring together defense contractors and senior special-operations officials for three days of speeches, panel discussions, and networking. But that morning, the association sent word that Flynn, a retired lieutenant general who spent three years as intelligence director of Joint Special
